Hoopoe is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 34 anagrams from letters in hoopoe (ehooop).
1660-70; variant of obsolete hoopoop (imitative); cognate with Low German huppup; compare Latin upupa
The flight of the hoopoe is undulating or jerky, like that of a butterfly.
The corona of the hoopoe is as mobile as are the ears of a horse.
The crest is the feature that distinguishes the hoopoe from all other birds.
Whether the following bird is meant for the hoopoe, or the Lapwing, I know not.
In Bavaria the hoopoe is said to play the part of attendant to the cuckoo.
The long bill of the hoopoe, like that of the snipe, is a probe to penetrate the earth.
Tereus is changed into a crested bird, either a hoopoe or a lapwing.
Like the wagtail, which originally had no tail, the hoopoe had originally no tuft on its head.
The cuckoo waited for a while for the hoopoe to return to him the tuft which he had lent her.
Time was, it is said, when the hoopoe had no crest, and he only got one granted by royal favour.