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Definition of "koel" []

  • A bird of the genus Eudynamys, cuckoos from Asia, Australia and the Pacific (noun)

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Use "koel" in a sentence
  • "The incubation period of the egg of the koel is shorter than that of the crow, the consequence is that when, as usually happens, there is one of the former and several of the latter in a nest, the young koel is invariably the first to emerge."
  • "Among those birds of North Queensland jungles which have marked individualistic characters is that known as the koel cuckoo, which the blacks of some localities have named"
  • "At first the call of the koel is a squeak, but later it takes the form of a creditable, if ludicrous, attempt at a caw."