How to pronounce hoopoe
American English pronunciation
HOO-poo
- IPA
- /ˈhupu/
- Syllables
- HOO · poo (2 syllables, stress on the 1st)
- Also said
- HOO-poh
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What hoopoe means
A bird with a fan-shaped crest and a long curved bill
In a sentence: A hoopoe raised its crest and poked its bill into the lawn for bugs.
Where it comes from: It is a changed form of an older name, hoopoop, which goes back to the Latin name upupa.
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