pallid cuckoo
noun
An Australian hawk cuckoo, Cuculus pallidus, with variable greyish or rufous plumage (often pale grey in the male); also ( Australian ) called brain-fever bird.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Archibald James Campbell (b. 1853).
- palaeosoil
- palaeosol
- palaeospecies
- palaeostriatal
- palaeostriatum
- palaeostructural
- palaeostructure
- palaeotechnic
- palaeotectonic
- palaeotemperature
- palaeothalamus
- palaeothere
- palaeotherium
- palaeothermometer
- palaeothermometry
- palaeotopographic
- palaeotopographical
- palaeotopographically
- palaeotopography
- Palaeotropical
- palaeotropics
- palaeotype
- palaeo-volcanic
- palaeowind
- Palaeozoic