Definitions for drongos

drongos dron·go

Spelling: [drong-goh]
IPA: /ˈdrɒŋ goʊ/

Drongos is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 121 anagrams from letters in drongos (dgnoors).

Definitions for drongos

noun

  1. any passerine bird of the family Dicruridae, of Africa, Asia, and Australia, the several species usually having black plumage and long, forked tails.
  2. a stupid or slow-witted person; simpleton.

Origin of drongos

Borrowed into English from Malagasy around 1835-45

Examples for drongos

On the other hand, a captive Racket-tailed drongo rejected toads when offered to it.

This being so, it is quite unnecessary for me to describe the drongo cuckoo; it is the image of a king-crow.

The drongo cuckoo is as like the king-crow as one pea is to another.

The drongo appears well adapted at Rota, where it prefers cultivated areas and the bombed village sites to thick woodlands.

The drongo builds earlier, for it is usually feeding its young while the oriole is incubating.

The drongo is black because it is built that way; its tendency is to produce black feathers.

My lack of knowledge of the habits of the drongo cuckoo is, however, not my chief reason for desiring to write about it.

May not the blackness and the forked tail of the drongo cuckoo have arisen in the same way as they arose in the king-crow?

This drongo was seen in areas where the trees had been cut, sitting on limbs and darting out after insects.

The drongo cuckoo (Surniculus lugubris) is a bird of which I know practically nothing.

Word Value for drongos
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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