Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A cuckoo of the genus Eudynamys, as the Indian koel, E. orientalis. Also koϊl, kuil.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of cuckoos of the genus Eudynamys, found in India, the East Indies, and Australia. They deposit their eggs in the nests of other birds.

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  • noun A bird of the genus Eudynamys, cuckoos from Asia, Australia and the Pacific

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Examples

  • The incubation period of the egg of the koel is shorter than that of the crow, the consequence is that when, as usually happens, there is one of the former and several of the latter in a nest, the young koel is invariably the first to emerge.

    A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

  • Among those birds of North Queensland jungles which have marked individualistic characters is that known as the koel cuckoo, which the blacks of some localities have named

    My Tropic Isle 2003

  • At first the call of the koel is a squeak, but later it takes the form of a creditable, if ludicrous, attempt at a caw.

    A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

  • Among those birds of North Queensland jungles which have marked individualistic characters is that known as the koel cuckoo, which the blacks of some localities have named "calloo-calloo" -- a mimetic term imitative of the most frequent notes of the bird.

    My Tropic Isle 1887

  • When the summer rain comes, so does the distinctive call of the koel, or rainbird.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2009

  • When the summer rain comes, so does the distinctive call of the koel, or rainbird.

    Koel Ivan Donn Carswell 2009

  • I have not only heard the koel calling there, but have seen a young koel being fed by crows.

    Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

  • The koel (_Eudynamis honorata_) occurs on the Nilgiris and has been shot at Ootacamund.

    Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

  • This is a near relative of the Indian koel, which bears remarkable resemblance to an American hawk

    Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

  • Now, at Almora alone of the hill stations does _Corvus splendens_, the Indian house-crow, occur, and this is the usual victim of the koel.

    Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

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  • Any of several cuckoos of the genus Eudynamys of India, the Malay Archipelago, and Australia.

    February 8, 2008