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Definition of Pheasant cuckoo
1. Noun. Australian bird with a tail like a pheasant.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pheasant Cuckoo
Literary usage of Pheasant cuckoo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"125 : " I shot over the island and enjoyed some very fair sport, especially with
the pheasant-cuckoo." Pheasant's Mother, «. an old name of an Australian ..."
2. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"Pheasant-Cuckoo, n. another name for the ... 125 : " I shot over the island and
enjoyed some very fair sport, especially with the pheasant-cuckoo. ..."
3. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1919)
"pheasant cuckoo. [176.] Crotophaga sulcirostris Swainson. Groove-billed Ani. 177.
Crotophaga ani Linnaeus. Ani. A pair, Gatun, August 11, 1912, and a male, ..."
4. English Compound Words and Phrases: A Reference List, with Statement of by Francis Horace Teall (1892)
"... pew=rent pewterwort pheasant=cuckoo pheasant=duck pheasant=finch pheasant's=eye*
pheasant=shell pheasant= tail pheasant=wood phloem=sheath phœnix=stone ..."
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