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poupa
Catalan
but-but
Spanish
upupa epops
Any of several crested Old World birds with a slender downward-curved bill.
hoopoo
Portuguese
poupa
hoopoo
1
At her approach a
hoopoo
rose and flew away above the trees.
1
The
hoopoe
had flown out through the hall to the open air.
2
On one occasion the
hoopoe
(39) was missed from among the birds.
3
The
hoopoe
resembles the peacock inasmuch as both have crests.
4
From the branch of a near tree the
hoopoe
startled him and made him color.
5
Meanwhile the
hoopoe
,
with a triumphant note, flew off towards the house to tell the news.
6
So Procne became the nightingale, and Philomela the swallow, while Tereus was changed into a
hoopoe
.
7
Gnulemah glanced down at the
hoopoe
,
who forthwith warbled aloud and fluttered up to her shoulder.
8
A
hoopoe
took deck, or rather rigging, passage for a while, and evoked the greatest interest.
9
Birds, however, abound, and we noticed the common sparrow,
hoopoe
,
water-wagtail, skylark, osprey, and several egrets.
10
Inside, gasping and exhausted, a great, hard seal of blood on its wing, was a
hoopoe
.
11
Tereus became an Epops
(
hoopoe
)
,
Procné a swallow, Philomela a nightingale, and Itys a goldfinch.
12
Now here was a live
hoopoe
in my hands or, to be more exact, a half-dead one.
13
The
hoopoe
responded encouragingly, the tree cracked, and Balder felt with dismay that it was tottering beneath him.
14
Then the
hoopoe
alighted near her.
15
The
hoopoe
's
speech pleased the king.
16
Somewhere above a
hoopoe
was calling.
hoopoe
brilliant hoopoe
eurasian hoopoe
fetch the hoopoe
little hoopoe
live hoopoe
Portuguese
poupa
boubela
Catalan
but-but
puput
Spanish
upupa epops