channel-bill cuckoo

A form of channel-billed cuckoo — A large, grey cuckoo, Scythrops novaehollandiae, of Indonesia, New Guinea and northeastern Australia,

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Meanings

nounchannel-bill cuckoo (plural channel-bill cuckoos)

plural channel-bill cuckoos

  1. alternativeAlternative form of channel-billed cuckoo.

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

    2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Constable (2009), page 361
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APA

channel-bill cuckoo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/channel-bill%20cuckoo

MLA

“channel-bill cuckoo.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/channel-bill%20cuckoo. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “channel-bill cuckoo,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/channel-bill%20cuckoo.

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