cuckoo | any of numerous European and North American birds having pointed wings and a long tail |
European cuckoo Cuculus canorus | common cuckoo of Europe having a distinctive two-note call, lays eggs in the nests of other birds |
black-billed cuckoo Coccyzus erythropthalmus | North American cuckoo, builds a nest and rears its own young |
pheasant coucal pheasant cuckoo Centropus phasianinus | Australian bird with a tail like a pheasant |
pied-billed grebe Podilymbus podiceps | American grebe having a black-banded whitish bill |
cuckoo-bumblebee | a bee that is parasitic in the nests of bumblebees |
pied lemming | North American lemming having a white winter coat and some claws much enlarged |
c Bedlam booby hatch crazy house cuckoo's nest funny farm funny house loony bin madhouse nut house nuthouse sanatorium snake pit | pejorative terms for an insane asylum |
bronze | a sculpture made of bronze |
bronze medal | a trophy made of bronze (or having the appearance of bronze) that is usually awarded for winning third place in a competition |
cuckoo clock | clock that announces the hours with a sound like the call of the cuckoo |
pied-a-terre | lodging for occasional or secondary use, they bought a pied-a-terre in London |
Bronze Star Medal Bronze Star | a United States military decoration awarded for meritorious service (except in aerial flight) |
Pied Piper Pied Piper of Hamelin | the title character in a German folk tale and in a poem by Robert Browning |
fathead goof goofball bozo jackass goose cuckoo twat zany | a man who is a stupid incompetent fool |
pied piper | a leader who entices people to follow (especially to their doom) |
ragged robin cuckoo flower Lychnis flosuculi Lychins floscuculi | common perennial native to Europe and western Asia having usually pink flowers with ragged petals |
lady's smock cuckooflower cuckoo flower meadow cress Cardamine pratensis | a bitter cress of Europe and America |
common wood sorrel cuckoo bread shamrock Oxalis acetosella | Eurasian plant with heart-shaped trifoliate leaves and white purple-veined flowers |
bronze | an alloy of copper and tin and sometimes other elements, also any copper-base alloy containing other elements in place of tin |
phosphor bronze | a corrosionesistant bronze containing phosphorus, used in bearings and gears |
alpha bronze | an alloy of copper and tin that can be worked |
aluminum bronze aluminium bronze | an alloy of copper and aluminum with high tensile strength and resistance to corrosion |
beryllium bronze | a copper-base alloy containing beryllium |
leaded bronze | bronze to which -% lead is added |
manganese bronze high-strength brass | a brass with from -% manganese to harden it |
naval brass Admiralty brass Admiralty Metal Tobin bronze | alpha-beta brass containing tin, resistant to sea water, Admiralty Metal is a trademark |
nickel bronze | a bronze containing up to % nickel |
silicon bronze | a bronze with -% silicon that is resistant to corrosion |
bronze age | (classical mythology) the third age of the world, marked by war and violence |
Bronze Age | (archeology) a period between the Stone and Iron Ages, characterized by the manufacture and use of bronze tools and weapons |
tan bronze | get a tan, from wind or sun |
bronze | give the color and appearance of bronze to something, bronze baby shoes |
cuckoo | repeat monotonously, like a cuckoo repeats his call |
bronze bronzy | of the color of bronze |
bronze-red | of red tinged with bronze |
s motley calico multicolor multi-color multicolour multi-colour multicolored multi-colored multicoloured multi-coloured painted particolored particoloured piebald pied varicolored varicoloured | having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly, a jester dressed in motley, the painted desert, a particolored dress, a piebald horse, pied daisies |
bronze | made from or consisting of bronze |