COTINGA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cotinga mean? 

• COTINGA (noun)
  The noun COTINGA has 1 sense:

1. passerine bird of New World tropics

  Familiarity information: COTINGA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COTINGA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Passerine bird of New World tropics

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

chatterer; cotinga

Hypernyms ("cotinga" is a kind of...):

flycatcher; New World flycatcher; tyrant bird; tyrant flycatcher (large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cotinga"):

cock of the rock; Rupicola rupicola (tropical bird of northern South America the male having brilliant red or orange plumage and an erectile disklike crest)

cock of the rock; Rupicola peruviana (bird of the Andes similar to Rupicola rupicola)

bellbird (any of several tropical American birds of the genus Procnias having a bell-like call)

Cephalopterus ornatus; umbrella bird (black tropical American bird having a large overhanging crest and long feathered wattle)

Holonyms ("cotinga" is a member of...):

genus Cotinga (type genus of the Cotingidae: cotingas)