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Koel :: Koel (n.) Any one of several species of cuckoos of the genus Eudynamys, found in India, the East Indies, and Australia. They deposit their eggs in the nests of other birds..

Titling :: Titling (n.) The hedge sparrow; -- called also titlene. Its nest often chosen by the cuckoo as a place for depositing its own eggs.

Cuculoid :: Cuculoid (a.) Like or belonging to the cuckoos (Cuculidae).

Gowk :: Gowk (n.) The European cuckoo; -- called also gawky.

Wake-robin :: Wake-robin (n.) Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum)..

Goldcup :: Goldcup (n.) The cuckoobud.

Picariae :: Picariae (n. pl.) An extensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds..

Cuckoo :: Cuckoo (n.) A bird belonging to Cuculus, Coccyzus, and several allied genera, of many species..

Piririgua :: Piririgua (n.) A South American bird (Guira guira) allied to the cuckoos.

Arum :: Arum (n.) A genus of plants found in central Europe and about the Mediterranean, having flowers on a spadix inclosed in a spathe. The cuckoopint of the English is an example..

Starchy :: Starchwort (n.) The cuckoopint, the tubers of which yield a fine quality of starch..

Barbet :: Barbet (n.) A bird of the family Bucconidae, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa..

Cowbird :: Cowbird (n.) The cow blackbird (Molothrus ater), an American starling. Like the European cuckoo, it builds no nest, but lays its eggs in the nests of other birds; -- so called because frequently associated with cattle..

Cuckooflower :: Cuckooflower (n.) A species of Cardamine (C. pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos-cuculi)..

Elleck :: Elleck (n.) The red gurnard or cuckoo fish.

Rampe :: Rampe (n.) The cuckoopint.

Cook :: Cook (v. i.) To make the noise of the cuckoo.

Coucal :: Coucal (n.) A large, Old World, ground cuckoo of the genus Centropus, of several species..

Sirkeer :: Sirkeer (n.) Any one of several species of Asiatic cuckoos of the genus Taccocua, as the Bengal sirkeer (T. sirkee)..

Cuckoopint :: Cuckoopint (n.) A plant of the genus Arum (A. maculatum); the European wake-robin.

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