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noun any of several crested Old World birds with a slender downward-curved bill
originAlteration of obsolete hoopoop, from earlier hoop, from Middle French and Old French huppe, from Latin upupa, ultimately onomatopoeic; Compare Ancient Greek ἔποψ (épops), Persian پوپو (popo).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0