Cuckoos

Word CUCKOOS
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Definitions and meanings of "Cuckoos"

What do we mean by cuckoos?

The two-note sound made by the cuckoo.

A Barbadian food made from mashed okra and cornmeal.

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The word "cuckoos" in example sentences

I am deliberately avoiding bringing in cuckoos and accipitrids (the latter noted by Olson as being possible allies of the turacos) in order to keep things simple-ish. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

Mr. Swainson has well remarked,28 that with the exception of the Molothrus pecoris, to which must be added the M. niger, the cuckoos are the only birds which can be called truly parasitical; namely, such as "fasten themselves, as it were, on another living animal, whose animal heat brings their young into life, whose food they live upon, and whose death would cause theirs during the period of infancy." ❋ Unknown (2003)

Scarcely less vociferous than the cuckoos are the owls. ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)

Swainson has well remarked, 8 that with the exception of the Molothrus pecoris, to which must be added the M. niger, the cuckoos are the only birds which can be called truly parasitical; namely, such as “fasten themselves, as it were, on another living animal, whose animal heat brings their young into life, whose food they live upon, and whose death would cause theirs during the period of infancy. ❋ Unknown (1909)

At first I can scarcely believe my own senses, the idea of cuckoos calling in the jungles of Afghanistan being about the last thing I should have expected to hear, never having read of travellers hearing them anywhere in Central Asia, nor yet having heard them myself before. ❋ Thomas Stevens (1894)

How well, too, I recall the cuckoos that, night or day, intoned so moodily in the willow copses below the east field fence and suffered from a like unpopular accusation of "laying their eggs in other birds 'nests." ❋ Unknown (1887)

Molothrus pecoris, to which must be added the M. niger, the cuckoos are the only birds which can be called truly parasitical; namely, such as "fasten themselves, as it were, on another living animal, whose animal heat brings their young into life, whose food they live upon, and whose death would cause theirs during the period of infancy." ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)

Maybe "cuckoos" doesn't make for a great movie title, but the title Village of the Damned is too religious and too hot. ❋ Fresca (2009)

Saudi ambassador: US Religious right leaders are "cuckoos" by on ❋ Unknown (2004)

"Guilty is about a dream I had five months ago in New York," she says of a soaring track towards the end of the record that's far removed from the ironic cheer of Hollywood or the infectious "cuckoos" on jangly upbeat Mowgli's Road. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The wedding crashers in the eponymous film lounge in the pews, illegitimate as cuckoos and lay their bets: What reading will be offered during the ceremony? ❋ Kate Braestrup (2011)

Great spotted cuckoos are a very rare visitor to Britain, so it was a treat to catch up with this stunning bird at such close range. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The little bustards were just one of more than 120 different kinds of bird we came across during a five-day visit to this secret corner of France, including a dozen different raptors, 10 long-legged waterbirds, and more nightingales and cuckoos than I hear in a year at home. ❋ Unknown (2011)

We got holograms and touch-screens, clueless hosts and unruly mega-panels of pundits, an infinite sadness of numbers, a murder of hypothetical conjecture, and the sort of constant droning repetition of cliched terms that you would expect from an invading army of malfunctioning robot-cuckoos. ❋ Jason Linkins (2010)

We went out, and Halina immediately began to show me her wonders: she walked on her hands and then made noises like the cawing of crows; she imitated sheep and cows, frogs, and cuckoos. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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