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# hoopoe

«hoopoe» in Mova's school dictionary: **A bird of Africa, Europe and Asia with pinkish-brown…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a hoopoe, hoopoes)

### meaning for a pupil

A bird of Africa, Europe and Asia with pinkish-brown feathers, black-and-white striped wings, a long thin beak and a big crest like a fan on its head; its call sounds like oop-oop-oop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoopoe/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In nature lessons on birds, and in stories and old tales; the hoopoe is the national bird of Israel. Phrases: a hoopoe's crest.

### examples

- The hoopoe raised its crest like a fan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoopoe/#x1)
- We saw a hoopoe in Spain on holiday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoopoe/#x2)
- A hoopoe digs for insects with its long beak. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoopoe/#x3)
- The hoopoe's call sounds like oop-oop-oop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoopoe/#x4)
- Hoopoes are rare visitors to Britain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoopoe/#x5)
- In an old tale, a hoopoe leads the birds on a long journey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoopoe/#x6)

### note

Say HOO-poo. Plural hoopoes. Its name copies its call.

### In the corpora

- [and the stork, and the heron after its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.273/)
- [and the stork, and the heron after its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.419/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hoopoe» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hoopoe/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.