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# kookaburra

«kookaburra» in Mova's school dictionary: **a big Australian bird of the kingfisher family with a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a kookaburra, kookaburras)

### meaning for a pupil

A kookaburra is a big Australian bird of the kingfisher family with a loud call that sounds like a person laughing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kookaburra/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons about Australian animals, birds and habitats; in music, the old children's round «Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree»; in Australia, a familiar morning sound.

### examples

- The kookaburra laughed loudly at dawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kookaburra/#x1)
- Kookaburras eat snakes, lizards and insects. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kookaburra/#x2)
- We sang «Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kookaburra/#x3)
- A kookaburra snatched a sausage from the barbecue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kookaburra/#x4)
- The laughing kookaburra is a kind of kingfisher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kookaburra/#x5)

### note

Countable. Native to Australia (also introduced in New Zealand). Its laugh is actually a call to mark its territory.

### Trees and pragmatics

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