Cuckoo

kook′kōō, n. a bird which cries cuckoo, remarkable for laying its eggs in the nests of other birds.— ns. Cuck′oo-bud ( Shak. ), name of a plant; Cuck′oo-clock , a clock in which the hours are told by a cuckoo-call; Cuck′oo-flow′er , a species of Cardamine—called also Lady's Smock ; Cuck′oo-pint , the Wake-robin, Arum maculatum ; Cuck′oo-spit , -spit′tle , a frothy spittle, made by many insects parasitic on plants, surrounding the larvæ and pupæ.