cuculinæ

from The Century Dictionary.

• In ornithology: A subfamily of Cuculidæ, including the typical cuckoos, such as the Cuculus canorus at Europe. See cut under cuckoos. In Nitzsch's system of classification, a major and miscellaneous group of picarian or cuculiform birds of no fixed limits, including, besides cuckoos, the trogons, goatsuckers, and sundry others.
• In entomology, a well-marked group of naked, sometimes wasp-like, parasitic bees, having no polliniferous brushes or plates; the cuckoo-bees. See cuckoo-bee.