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cuckoo-hawk

noun

Etymology

From cuckoo + hawk.

  1. inherited from *kopuǵos✻
  2. inherited from *habukaz✻
  3. inherited from *habuk✻
  4. inherited from hafoc
  5. inherited from hauk,hauke,hawke,havek
  6. compounded as cuckoo-hawk — “cuckoo + hawk”

Definitions

  1. Either of two African hawks in the genus Aviceda

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