cuckoo : Idioms & Phrases

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black-billed cuckoo

  • noun North American cuckoo; builds a nest and rears its own young
    Coccyzus erythropthalmus.
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cloud-cuckoo-land

  • noun an imaginary place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality
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Cuckoo bee

  • (Zool.), a bee, parasitic in the larval stage in the nests of other bees, feeding either upon their food or larvae. They belong to the genera Nomada, Melecta, Epeolus, and others.
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cuckoo bread

  • noun Eurasian plant with heart-shaped trifoliate leaves and white purple-veined flowers
    shamrock; Oxalis acetosella; common wood sorrel.
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Cuckoo clock

  • noun clock that announces the hours with a sound like the call of the cuckoo
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  • a clock so constructed that at the time for striking it gives forth sounds resembling the cry of the cuckoo.
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Cuckoo dove

  • (Zoöl.), a long-tailed pigeon of the genus Macropygia. Many species inhabit the East Indies.
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Cuckoo falcon

  • (Zoöl.), any falcon of the genus Baza. The genus inhabits Africa and the East Indies.
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Cuckoo fish

  • (Zoöl.), the European red gurnard (Trigla cuculus). The name probably alludes to the sound that it utters.
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cuckoo flower

  • noun a bitter cress of Europe and America
    cuckooflower; lady's smock; Cardamine pratensis; meadow cress.
  • noun common perennial native to Europe and western Asia having usually pink flowers with ragged petals
    Lychins floscuculi; Lychnis flos-cuculi; ragged robin.
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Cuckoo maid

  • (Zoöl.), the wryneck; called also cuckoo mate.
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Cuckoo ray

  • (Zoöl.), a British ray (Raia miraletus).
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Cuckoo spit, ∨ Cuckoo spittle

  • . (a) A frothy secretion found upon plants, exuded by the larvae of certain insects, for concealment; called also toad spittle and frog spit. (b) (Zoöl.) A small hemipterous insect, the larva of which, living on grass and the leaves of plants, exudes this secretion. The insects belong to Aphrophora, Helochara, and allied genera.
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cuckoo's nest

  • noun pejorative terms for an insane asylum
    crazy house; Bedlam; snake pit; loony bin; booby hatch; madhouse; nuthouse; funny farm; sanatorium; nut house; funny house.
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cuckoo-bumblebee

  • noun a bee that is parasitic in the nests of bumblebees
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european cuckoo

  • noun common cuckoo of Europe having a distinctive two-note call; lays eggs in the nests of other birds
    Cuculus canorus.
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Ground cuckoo

  • . (Zoöl.) See Chaparral cock.
  • the chaparral cock.
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pheasant cuckoo

  • noun Australian bird with a tail like a pheasant
    Centropus phasianinus; pheasant coucal.
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