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Definition: DRONGO |
DRONGONoun1. A passerine bird of the family Dicruridae. They are usually black with a deeply forked tail. They are natives of Asia, Africa, and Australia; -- called also drongo shrikes. |
Date "DRONGO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
"DRONGO" is a common misspelling or typo for: derange, dragon, drogue, drug, during, gringo, prong, wrong. |
Crosswords: DRONGO |
| English words defined with "DRONGO": Drongos ♦ King crow. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
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| Chaetorhynchus Dicrurus |
The drongos are small passerine birds of the Old World tropics. They were previously classed as the family Dicruridae, but that has been much enlarged to include a number of largely Australasian groups, such as the Australasian fantails, monarchs and paradise flycatchers.
These insect-eating birds are found in usually open forests or bush. Most are black or dark grey in colour, sometimes with metallic tints. They have long forked tails, and some Asian species have elaborate tail decorations. They have short legs and sit very upright whilst perched, like a shrike. They flycatch or take prey from the ground.
Two to four eggs are laid in a nest high in a tree. These are aggressive and fearless birds, given their small size, and drongos will attack much larger species if their nest or young are threatened.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Drongo."
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Movie/TV Titles | Drongo (2002) | |
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Expression using "DRONGO": drongo shrikes. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "DRONGO": drongo-rock. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
drongo | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "DRONGO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | drongo velouté (fork-tailed drongo), dicrurus adsimilis (fork-tailed drongo). (various references) | ||||
German | dicrurus adsimilis (dicrurus adsimilis, fork-tailed drongo), Trauerdrongo (dicrurus adsimilis, fork-tailed drongo). (various references) | ||||
Greek | dicrurus adsimilis (dicrurus adsimilis, fork-tailed drongo). (various references) | ||||
Indonesian | anting-anting (drongo bird, earring). (various references) | ||||
Italian | drongo (dicrurus adsimilis, fork-tailed drongo), dicrurus adsimilis (dicrurus adsimilis, fork-tailed drongo). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ongodray | ||||
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Words beginning with "DRONGO": drongos. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-n-o-o-r" | |
-1 letter: donor, rondo. | |
-2 letters: dong, door, good, goon, odor, ordo, rood. | |
-3 letters: dog, don, dor, god, goo, gor, nod, nog, noo, nor, rod. | |
-4 letters: do, go, no, od, on, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-n-o-o-r" | |
+1 letter: dragoon, drongos, gadroon, godroon. | |
+2 letters: brooding, doggoner, dragoons, drooling, drooping, fordoing, gadroons, godroons, ondogram, rigadoon, rodeoing. | |
+3 letters: cordoning, corroding, doctoring, dragooned, forboding, foredoing, gadrooned, goldenrod, gondolier, goosander, grandioso, greenwood, groundhog, groundout, odorizing, ondograms, overdoing, prognosed, prolonged, rigadoons, wrongdoer. | |
+4 letters: bourgeoned, broodingly, decoloring, dendrology, derogation, disrooting, doggoneder, dragooning, droopingly, foreboding, foreground, gadrooning, goldenrods, gondoliers, goosanders, gorgonized, greenwoods, groundhogs, groundouts, groundwood, groundwork, monogramed, orangewood, overdosing, reflooding, springwood, stronghold, torpedoing, wordmonger, wrongdoers, wrongdoing. | |
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