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channel-billed cuckoo

channel-billed cuckoo noun: a large, grey cuckoo, Scythrops novaehollandiae, of Indonesia, New Guinea and northeastern Australia,.

channel-billed cuckoo: a large, grey cuckoo, Scythrops novaehollandiae, of Indonesia, New Guinea and northeastern...
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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-billed cuckoo

pluralchannel-billed cuckoos
alternative formchannel-bill cuckoo

Questions about channel-billed cuckoo

What does channel-billed cuckoo mean?
Channel-billed cuckoo means a large, grey cuckoo, Scythrops novaehollandiae, of Indonesia, New Guinea and northeastern Australia,.
What part of speech is channel-billed cuckoo?
Channel-billed cuckoo is a noun.
What is the plural of channel-billed cuckoo?
The plural of channel-billed cuckoo is channel-billed cuckoos.

Words near channel-billed cuckoo in the dictionary

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

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