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channel-bill cuckoo

channel-bill cuckoo is the alternative form of channel-billed cuckoo.

Meaning of channel-billed cuckoo

Noun

channel-billed cuckoo (plural channel-billed cuckoos)

  1. A large, grey cuckoo, Scythrops novaehollandiae, of Indonesia, New Guinea and northeastern Australia,
    • The channel-bill cuckoos disturbed one another, up in the skies, shouting in a frenzy of old man's cackle.2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 376

Forms of channel-bill cuckoo

pluralchannel-bill cuckoos

Questions about channel-bill cuckoo

What is channel-bill cuckoo the alternative form of?
Channel-bill cuckoo is the alternative form of channel-billed cuckoo.

Words near channel-bill cuckoo in the dictionary

  1. channel surf
  2. channel surfed
  3. channel surfing
  4. channel surfs
  5. Channel Tunnel
  6. channel-bill cuckoo
  7. channel-bill cuckoos
  8. channel-billed cuckoo
  9. channel-billed cuckoos
  10. channel-hop
  11. channel-hopped

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