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HOOPOO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hoopoo mean?
• HOOPOO (noun)
The noun HOOPOO has 1 sense:
1. any of several crested Old World birds with a slender downward-curved bill
Familiarity information: HOOPOO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("hoopoo" 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 "hoopoo"):
Euopean hoopoe; Upupa epops (pinkish-brown hoopoe with black-and-white wings)
Holonyms ("hoopoo" is a member of...):
family Upupidae; Upupidae (hoopoes)
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