WOOD HOOPOE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wood hoopoe mean? 

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

1. tropical African bird having metallic blackish plumage but no crest

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOOD HOOPOE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical African bird having metallic blackish plumage but no crest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

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

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

genus Phoeniculus; Phoeniculus (type and only genus of the family Phoeniculidae)