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Cuckoo's swift cousin
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roadrunner
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The roadrunner (genus Geococcyx ), also known as a chaparral bird or chaparral cock , is a fast-running ground cuckoo that has a long tail and a crest. It is found in the southwestern United States and Mexico , usually in the desert. Some have been clocked ...
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n. speedy largely terrestrial bird found from California and Mexico to Texas [syn: chaparral cock , Geococcyx californianus ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ M., where the state bird is the roadrunner . ▪ The Comanche thought the roadrunner was a good-luck charm, and hung its skin in their tipis.
Usage examples of roadrunner.
He had no call to tell a Papago mule that roadrunners patrolled for snakes, lizards, and bugs early in the morning or late in the afternoon.
Coyotes watched them from the ridges, roadrunners darted across the road in front of them, and a bobcat was startled into immobility by the unfamiliar presence of the truck before it faded away into the brush.
Frederick scowled as a trio of Roadrunners sped past the cab, honking, their red-clad riders bent low over their necks.
It was a muscle car, a Plymouth Roadrunner, red as a candy apple, half a block away.
Since becoming a roadrunner he had discovered that, in Ne-Issan, the unbridgable gulf between the various clans had been forcibly broken down.