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Definition of Hoopoos
1. hoopoo [n] - See also: hoopoo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoopoos
Literary usage of Hoopoos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. From the Gulf to Ararat: An Expedition Through Mesopotamia and Kurdistan by Gilbert Ernest Hubbard (1917)
"When he awoke refreshed, he asked the hoopoos what reward they would choose, ...
After a long confabulation the hoopoos returned answer through their ..."
2. African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American by Theodore Roosevelt (1910)
"... familiar cow-herons, crocodile plover, noisy spur- wing plover, black- and-white
kingfishers, hoopoos, green bee-eaters, black-and-white chats, ..."
3. Sinai and Palestine, in Connection with Their History by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1905)
"... and cormorants, and geese, flying like constellations through the blue heavens;
pelicans standing in long array on the water side; hoopoos and ..."
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