Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A whooping crane.
- noun A whooper swan.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which whoops; a hooper: specifically applied in ornithology to a species of swan and of crane.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, whooops.
- noun (Zoöl.) See the Note under
Swan .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person or animal that
whoops . - noun The
whooping crane ,Grus americana . - noun The
whooper swan ,Cygnus cygnus .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun rare North American crane having black-and-white plumage and a trumpeting call
- noun common Old World swan noted for its whooping call
Etymologies
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Examples
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Wang Fudong/Xinhua/Zumapress.com A flock of whooper swan sought food at a nature reserve in Rongcheng, China's Shandong province, Monday.
Asia in Pictures 2011
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On the banks of the now narrow river were two family parties of whooper swans, one with five well-grown grey/brown cygnets and the other with two cygnets.
Country diary: Glen Strathfarrar Ray Collier 2010
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More than 3,000 whooper swans have settled here to spend winter.
Asia in Pictures 2011
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More than 3,000 whooper swans have settled there for winter.
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Xinhua/Zuma Press SWAN RESERVE: A flock of whooper swans sought food at a nature reserve in Rongcheng, Shandong Province, China, Monday.
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I don't know why anyone wants to put someone in the white house that has told one whooper after another.
Clinton: I'm not listening to economists on gas tax holiday 2008
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A. 30-'06 will kill anything on the North American continent just as dead at viable shooting ranges as what ever that super-duper whooper the WH just had to have, and probably has killed a lot more of it, whatever IT is!!
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The editors render the speech of this "magnetic singer and whooper" as best they can
Black Voices From the Pulpit Eric J. Sundquist 2010
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Pete Masters wonders: "Ornothologial question: If we had to classify, would Swann be a mute, a whooper or a Bewick?"
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| Reply | Permalink what a ho! guess she feels safe with this whooper cause she knows for sure there is no vidio. are people really this stupid in america?
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