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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 wings
Familiarity information: UPUPA EPOPS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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