Noun: hoopoe
| Singular | hoopoe |
| Plural | hoopoes |
Sample Sentences
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For quotations using this term, see Citations:hoopoe.
Nouns inflected like hoopoe
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Alteration of obsolete hoopoop, from earlier hoop, from Middle French and Old French huppe, from Latin upupa, ultimately onomatopoeic; Compare Ancient Greek ἔποψ (épops), Persian پوپو (popo). See: Latin Nouns '
upupa', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ἔποψ'.