pheasant cuckoo

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   Australian bird with a tail like a pheasant

   Synonymspheasant coucalCentropus phasianinus

   Broadercoucal

Questions about pheasant cuckoo

What does pheasant cuckoo mean?

pheasant cuckoo means "Australian bird with a tail like a pheasant".

What is another word for pheasant cuckoo?

Close synonyms include pheasant coucal, Centropus phasianinus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pheasant cuckoo a common word?

pheasant cuckoo is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.