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Noun: hoopoe  hoo-poo
  1. Any of several crested Old World birds with a slender downward-curved bill
    "The hoopoe's distinctive crown of feathers fanned out as it landed";
    - hoopoo

Derived forms: hoopoes

Type of: coraciiform bird

Part of: family Upupidae, Upupidae

Encyclopedia: Hoopoe