channel-bill

chan·nel·bill

[chan-l-bil]
noun
a large, gray Australian cuckoo, Scythrops novaehollandiae, with a grooved bill.
Also called channel-billed cuckoo [chan-l-bild] .


Origin:
channel1 + bill2

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