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hoopoo

hoopoo is the archaic form of hoopoe.

Meaning of hoopoe

Noun

hoopoe (plural hoopoes)

  1. Any Old World bird of genus Upupa, especially Upupa epops (Eurasian hoopoe), known for its distinctive plumage, fanlike crest, and slender bill.
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Forms of hoopoo

pluralhoopoos

Questions about hoopoo

What is hoopoo the archaic form of?
Hoopoo is the archaic form of hoopoe.

Words near hoopoo in the dictionary

  1. hoopoe
  2. hoopoe-lark
  3. hoopoe-larks
  4. hoopoes
  5. hooponopono
  6. hoopoo
  7. hoopoop
  8. hoopoops
  9. hoopoos
  10. hoops
  11. hoopskirt

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hoopoo (page history and authors); hoopoe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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