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Definition of Coucal
1. Noun. Old World ground-living cuckoo having a long dagger-like hind claw.
Group relationships: Centropus, Genus Centropus
Specialized synonyms: Centropus Sinensis, Crow Pheasant, Centropus Phasianinus, Pheasant Coucal, Pheasant Cuckoo
Definition of Coucal
1. n. A large, Old World, ground cuckoo of the genus Centropus, of several species.
Definition of Coucal
1. Noun. Any bird of the genus ''Centropus'' in cuckoo family Cuculidae. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Coucal
1. a type of bird [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coucal
Literary usage of Coucal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On Safari: Big Game Hunting in British East Africa, with Studies in Bird-life by Abel Chapman (1908)
"At our last camp, coucal, OR BDSH-CUCKOO. Known as " Water-bottle bird" at Mombasa.
by a pestilent swamp on the Molo, we were doubting whether death itself ..."
2. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society by Bombay Natural History Society (1889)
"The Common coucal or Crow Pheasant is abundant throughout the district, with the
exception of Sind, where it is replaced by the closely allied C. maximus. ..."
3. The Zoological Miscellany: Being Descriptions of New Or Interesting Animals by William Elford Leach, Richard P. Nodder (1814)
"The locality of this beautiful coucal, which is preserved in the British Museum,
... WHITE-BELLIED coucal. Head, neck, throat, and breast black, ..."
4. Bombay Ducks: An Account of Some of the Every-day Birds and Beasts Found in by Douglas Dewar, Frederick Durand Stirling Fayrer (1906)
"The grasshopper often doubles, and is of course followed by the coucal, which,
when making a sharp turn, often expands one wing, using it as a steering ..."
5. On Safari: Big Game Hunting in British East Africa, with Studies in Bird-life by Abel Chapman (1908)
"At our last camp, coucal, OR BDSH-CUCKOO. Known as " Water-bottle bird" at Mombasa.
by a pestilent swamp on the Molo, we were doubting whether death itself ..."
6. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society by Bombay Natural History Society (1889)
"The Common coucal or Crow Pheasant is abundant throughout the district, with the
exception of Sind, where it is replaced by the closely allied C. maximus. ..."
7. The Zoological Miscellany: Being Descriptions of New Or Interesting Animals by William Elford Leach, Richard P. Nodder (1814)
"The locality of this beautiful coucal, which is preserved in the British Museum,
... WHITE-BELLIED coucal. Head, neck, throat, and breast black, ..."
8. Bombay Ducks: An Account of Some of the Every-day Birds and Beasts Found in by Douglas Dewar, Frederick Durand Stirling Fayrer (1906)
"The grasshopper often doubles, and is of course followed by the coucal, which,
when making a sharp turn, often expands one wing, using it as a steering ..."
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