noun
North American cuckoo; builds a nest and rears its own young
• Syn: ↑Coccyzus erythropthalmus
• Hypernyms: ↑cuckoo
• Member Holonyms: ↑Coccyzus, ↑genus Coccyzus
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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷-\ noun : a common No. American cuckoo (Coccyzus erythropthalmus) that constructs a nest and hatches its own eggs and is grayish brown above with a circle of bare red skin about the eye and a solid-black bill
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/blak"bild'/
a black-billed North American cuckoo, Coccyzus erythropthalmus, that, unlike most cuckoos, constructs its own nest and rears its own young.
[1905-10, Amer.]
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black-billed cuckoo «BLAK BIHLD»,
a North American cuckoo with a black bill, which builds its own nest and hatches its own eggs.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.