cuckoo clock noun

A clock in which a mechanical bird pops out of a door, making the sound of a cuckoo to announce the hours

cuckoo flower noun

1. A plant (Cardamine pratensis) commonly found in damp pastures in Europe and America, with divided leaves and small lilac or white flowers, lady's smock
2. Another name for ragged robin

cuckoo fly noun

A gold-wasp, so named from laying its eggs in the nests or larvae of other insects

cuckoo pint (orig cuckoo pintle) /-pint or -pīnt/ noun

A European plant (Arum maculatum) with a cylindrical purple flower-stalk (spadix) enclosed within a yellowish modified leaf (spathe), and poisonous red berries (also called lords and ladies)

cuckoo shrike noun

An Old World tropical songbird of the family Campephagidae, somewhat similar to a cuckoo when in flight

cuckoo-spit or cuckoo-spittle noun

A froth secreted by froth-flies or frog-hoppers on plants, surrounding and protecting the larvae and pupae