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Upupa

noun
1.
Type genus of the Upupidae.  Synonym: genus Upupa.



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Upupa epops


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"Upupa" Quotes from Famous Books



... a tale. You know the holy birds who run up and down on the Prado at Seville among the ladies' pretty feet,—eh? with hooked noses and cinnamon crests? Of course. Hoopoes—Upupa, as the classics have it. Well, senors, once on a time, the story goes, these hoopoes all had golden crowns on their heads; and, senors, they took the consequences—eh? But it befell on a day that all the ...
— Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley


Words linked to "Upupa" :   Upupidae, Upupa epops, bird genus, family Upupidae, Euopean hoopoe, genus Upupa


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