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Meanings of
cuckoos
in English
Russian
кукушка
Portuguese
cuco
Spanish
cuco
Catalan
cuculidae
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Family of birds.
cuculidae
Related terms
taxon
Russian
кукушка
No examples available for any of the synonyms
Usage of
cuckoos
in English
1
Two
cuckoos
answered one another in the denser forest somewhere above him.
2
Songs of
cuckoos
and nightingales echoed from the copses on the hillsides.
3
What reminiscences of dear old England the song of the
cuckoos
awakened!
4
True, we learn a lot more than bats and
cuckoos
do.
5
Beethoven was a beautiful brown thrush in a nest of
cuckoos
.
6
The trees are fast dropping unreality, and the
cuckoos
begin calling.
7
Wills began to study foraging antbirds and ground
cuckoos
-
until
suddenly
they were gone.
8
I leave the
cuckoos
to pay you for what you did.
9
You know, my hobby's prowling around looking for yellow-billed
cuckoos
and golden-winged warblers.
10
I saw half-a-dozen
cuckoos
,
gliding silvery grey and beating the hedges for nests.
11
Crows,
cuckoos
,
starlings, and turtledoves each called to their kind in distinctive voices.
12
This year some of the
cuckoos
having been arriving late.
13
The
cuckoos
and a thousand birds were singing; the little streams were very bright.
14
And
cuckoos
,
like noise falling in drops off the leaves.
15
The, cuckoo that stays out later than the other
cuckoos
is the triumphant survivor.
16
The call of the
cuckoos
-
alittlesharpened-followedthe swift-travelling car.
Other examples for "cuckoos"
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cuckoos
Noun
Plural
Frequent collocations
other cuckoos
bill cuckoos
common cuckoos
confine to cuckoos
display cuckoos
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Translations for
cuckoos
Russian
кукушка
кукушковые
cuculidae
фуфушка
кукушки
Portuguese
cuco
cuculidae
cuculídea
cucos
Spanish
cuco
cuclillo
cuculidae
cucu
Catalan
cuculidae
cucúlids
cucúlid
Cuckoos
through the time
Cuckoos
across language varieties
United Kingdom
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