hoopoe

Examples

• All

• He was tall and gaunt, and his hair, which was prematurely grey at the temples, would stand up straight in the wind like a hoopoe's crest.

  Fiction book (1998)

• The hoopoe is my favorite bird.

  Academic text (2001)

• Eran, who was on duty then, too, was pointing out warblers for me when he suddenly turned and said, "There goes a Hoopoe."

  Academic text (2001)

• The hoopoes cried piercingly on the veranda.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Philomela becomes a nightingale, Procne a swallow, and Tereus a hoopoe.

  Fiction book (1991)

• To find the worm, Solomon had to find the bird, but in order to find the bird, he had to find the King of the Demons, Asmodeus, who knew the Hoopoe's whereabouts.

  Academic text (2001)

• The cries of hoopoes and nightjars blended like music, ten, a hundred times more immediate than the wailing of the phonograph from inside the screens.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Just then, as we talked, a hoopoe bird landed quietly on the windowsill.

• The hoopoe cried piercingly on the veranda.

• Sitting in the shade, I had watched the hoopoes pecking for worms.

Synonyms

H

hoopoo

vshoopoe

• US

9.9

A bird with a crest of feathers and a long curved bill that eats insects

is the standard spelling rather than an alternative form

U

Upupa epops

vshoopoe

• Specialized

9.9

A pinkish-brown bird with a long crest and black-and-white wings found in Europe, Asia, and North Africa

is the general Old World bird term and not a species name

E

European hoopoe

vshoopoe

• UK

8.9

A bird with black and white wings and a crest, found in Europe, Asia and Africa

is the wider Old World bird term not limited to Europe

Compounds

E

European hoopoe

• UK

8.9

A bird with black and white wings and a crest, found in Europe, Asia and Africa

W

wood hoopoe

• South African

9.9

A tropical African bird with shiny black feathers and a long tail that looks for insects under tree bark

Surface Forms

Etymology