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channel-billed cuckoos

channel-billed cuckoos is the plural 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

Questions about channel-billed cuckoos

What is channel-billed cuckoos the plural of?
Channel-billed cuckoos is the plural of channel-billed cuckoo.

Words near channel-billed cuckoos in the dictionary

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

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