Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

channel-billed cuckoo

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.00 in modern English

Syllables: chan-nel--billed cuck-oo
IPA

35

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

5

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A large, grey cuckoo, Scythrops novaehollandiae, of Indonesia, New Guinea and northeastern Australia,

Example Sentences

"The channel-bill cuckoos disturbed one another, up in the skies, shouting in a frenzy of old man's cackle."

Inflected Forms

channel-billed cuckoos (plural) channel-bill cuckoo (alternative)

Questions

What does channel-billed cuckoo mean?: A large, grey cuckoo, Scythrops novaehollandiae, of Indonesia, New Guinea and northeastern Australia,

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