Associations to the word «Hoopoe»

Wiktionary

HOOPOE, noun. An Old World bird, Upupa epops, known for its distinctive plumage, fanlike crest, and slender bill.

Dictionary definition

HOOPOE, noun. Any of several crested Old World birds with a slender downward-curved bill.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope