wompoo
/ˈwɒmpuː/(also wampoo, whampoo)
noun
More fully wompoo fruit dove, wompoo pigeon. A large, tropical Australasian fruit dove, Ptilinopus magnificus, with predominantly green plumage, pale grey head, purple breast, and yellow abdomen, and having a deep bubbling call.
Origin
Mid 19th century. Imitative of the bird's distinctive call.
- rock duck
- optical turnstile
- optical tweezers
- optic angle
- optic axis
- optic chiasma
- optic commissure
- optic cup
- optic disc
- optic fiber
- optic fibre
- optic foramen
- optic ganglion
- optic glass
- optician
- opticist
- opticity
- optic lobe
- optic nerve
- optic neuritis
- optico-chemical
- opticociliary
- opticokinetic
- optic papilla
- optic peduncle