Any of several crested Old World birds with a slender downward-curved bill.
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Examples for "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.
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