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kookaburra
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1890, from a native Australian word.
Wiktionary
n. Any of several species of kingfishers in the genus ''Dacelo'', known for their laugh-like call.
WordNet
n. Australian kingfisher having a loud cackling cry [syn: laughing jackass, Dacelo gigas]
Wikipedia
Kookaburras are terrestrial tree kingfishers of the genus Dacelo native to Australia and New Guinea, which grow to between in length. The name is a loanword from Wiradjuri guuguubarra, onomatopoeic of its call. The single member of the genus Clytoceyx is commonly referred to as the shovel-billed kookaburra.
The kookaburra's loud call sounds like echoing human laughter. They are found in habitats ranging from humid forest to arid savanna, as well as in suburban areas with tall trees or near running water. Even though they belong to the larger group known as " kingfishers", kookaburras are not closely associated with water.
Kookaburra is an Australian sounding rocket consisting of a Lupus-rocket as first stage and a Musca rocket as second stage. The Kookaburra was launched 33 times, from Woomera, South Australia, and from Gan, which is an atoll located in the Indian Ocean.
Kookaburra may refer to:
- Kookaburra, the Australian bird
- Kookaburras (hockey), the Australian national men's hockey team
- Kookaburra (song), a popular nursery rhyme/song about the bird
- Kookaburra (aeroplane), a particular Westland Widgeon III aeroplane
- Kookaburra (rocket), an Australian sounding rocket
- Kookaburra Sport, a sports equipment company
- "Kookaburra", a Cocteau Twins song from their 1985 EP Aikea-Guinea
- Kookaburra (comics), a comic saga created and drawn by Didier Chrispeels (Crisse)
- Kookaburra (astronomy), a Pulsar wind nebula located in the Milky Way Galaxy
- Australian Silver Kookaburra, a silver bullion coin
- Dulmont Magnum, an Australian early laptop computer known internationally as the Kookaburra
"Kookaburra" (also known by its first line: "Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree") is a popular Australian nursery rhyme and round about the Kookaburra (an Australian Kingfisher). It was written by Marion Sinclair (9 October 1896 – 15 February 1988) in 1932.
Kookaburra is a live album by the Japanese noise musician Merzbow. It was recorded at the Riverside Theatre Parramatta during the Aurora Festival. A collaborative concert with Oren Ambarchi recorded two days later was released as Cat's Squirrel.
Usage examples of "kookaburra".
The lyre-bird man of the story was discredited, and therefore in later years such men were never of much account in the eyes of their compatriots, while those of the kookaburra, though it is recognised as an affinity of a much later date, are always people of great importance.
Overhead, a kookaburra let loose with a burst of raucous laughter, mocking her efforts.
She named birds for him, a rogue kookaburra laughing from a cluster of trees at the edge of the paddock, a pair of wedge tail eagles circling overhead.
It was somewhat rare and beautiful, a kookaburra bird, the same kind of bird which had laughed in Original Australia on Old Old Earth.
Lord Redlady with a democratic heartiness which was so false that the workwoman Eleanor, silent all the evening, let out one wild caw of a laugh, like a kookaburra beginning to whoop in a tree.
The bristles had stuck in his throat, and a kookaburra, who had a firm grip of his tail, was making an effort to fly away with him.
When Mar arrived at the camping ground of the tribe, Tatkanna, who was only a little fellow, was very frightened, and begged his friend Quartang, the Kookaburra, to take up his quarrel.
Jack, the kookaburra, was jealous of new birds and Cocky squalled from the top of the wagon.
For a device rated at perhaps a thousand hours, the Kookaburra Beacon had long outlived the company that had produced it.
From somewhere in the bush at his back he heard the strange bird the natives called a kookaburra emit its high-pitched cackle, sounding for all the world like demented laughter, and suddenly irritated, Tench thought longingly of his impending return to England.
Not only were there more koala bears than they could have imagined, there were dingos, kookaburras, kangaroos, and evena platypus.
Instead, her eyes focused on the shadowy forms of a pair of kookaburras nestled for the night high in the branches of a gum not far away.
I saw them three kookaburras last night on the washhouse roof, hoohooing like devils.
Each morning, I awoke to hear the kookaburras laughing and the maggies warbling.
There was no one in the neighborhood, no one at all, except for the excited and sympathetic kookaburras ha-ha-ing madly in the tree above.