HOOPOE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hoopoe mean? 

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

1. any of several crested Old World birds with a slender downward-curved bill

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOOPOE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several crested Old World birds with a slender downward-curved bill

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

hoopoe; hoopoo

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

coraciiform bird (chiefly short-legged arboreal nonpasserine birds that nest in holes)

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

Euopean hoopoe; Upupa epops (pinkish-brown hoopoe with black-and-white wings)

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

family Upupidae; Upupidae (hoopoes)