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drongo-cuckoo

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.74 in modern English

Syllables
dron-go-cuck-oo
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any bird of the genus Surniculus, found from India to the Philippines.

Inflected Forms

drongo-cuckoos (plural)

Phrases

Moluccan drongo-cuckoo Philippine drongo-cuckoo square-tailed drongo-cuckoo fork-tailed drongo-cuckoo

Questions

What does drongo-cuckoo mean?
Any bird of the genus Surniculus, found from India to the Philippines.

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