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UPUPA EPOPS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Upupa epops mean? 

UPUPA EPOPS (noun)
  The noun UPUPA EPOPS has 1 sense:

1. pinkish-brown hoopoe with black-and-white wingsplay

  Familiarity information: UPUPA EPOPS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UPUPA EPOPS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Pinkish-brown hoopoe with black-and-white wings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Euopean hoopoe; Upupa epops

Hypernyms ("Upupa epops" is a kind of...):

hoopoe; hoopoo (any of several crested Old World birds with a slender downward-curved bill)

Holonyms ("Upupa epops" is a member of...):

genus Upupa; Upupa (type genus of the Upupidae)


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