centropus

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A genus of birds, typical of the subfamily Centropodinæ: in a restricted sense, covering only the African coucals, like C. senegalensis; in other usages, more or less nearly the same as the subfamily Centropodinæ.

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• noun a genus of Cuculidae