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    HOOPOE

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    hoopoe; hoopoo

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    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)

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