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lesser cuckoo

lesser cuckoo noun: any member of the species Cuculus poliocephalus, found from the Congo to Japan.

lesser cuckoo: any member of the species Cuculus poliocephalus, found from the Congo to Japan
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Noun

lesser cuckoo (countable and uncountable, plural lesser cuckoos)

  1. Any member of the species Cuculus poliocephalus, found from the Congo to Japan.

Forms of lesser cuckoo

plurallesser cuckoos

Questions about lesser cuckoo

What does lesser cuckoo mean?
Lesser cuckoo means any member of the species Cuculus poliocephalus, found from the Congo to Japan.
What part of speech is lesser cuckoo?
Lesser cuckoo is a noun.
What is the plural of lesser cuckoo?
The plural of lesser cuckoo is lesser cuckoos.

Words near lesser cuckoo in the dictionary

  1. lesser chinchillas
  2. lesser clubmoss
  3. lesser clubmosses
  4. lesser crested tern
  5. lesser crested terns
  6. lesser cuckoo
  7. Lesser Eid
  8. lesser evil
  9. lesser evilism
  10. lesser evilist
  11. lesser evilists

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