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  • noun a colloquialism for the yellow-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus)

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  • Nickname for the Yellow-Billed or Black-Billed Cuckoo, or the Mangrove Cuckoo, all of whom were thought to presage rain.

    December 8, 2007