(n.) Any one of several species of cuckoos of the genus Eudynamys, found in India, the East Indies, and Australia. They deposit their eggs in the nests of other birds.
Example Sentences:
(1) Not because they are uninteresting to me, but because I am making space for all the other questions, the questions about falling in love, about the taste of water in the air, about the blue-black feathers and crimson eyes of the koel bird.
(2) As a contrast, it depleted 60-80% of both NE and E from the innervated glands as compared to 17-43% reduction from the denervated glands in nonpasserine (woodpecker, parakeet, and koel) birds.
Kohl
Definition:
(n.) A mixture of soot and other ingredients, used by Egyptian and other Eastern women to darken the edges of the eyelids.
Example Sentences:
(1) Adults and immatures of Ixodes pacificus Cooley & Kohls were collected by flagging vegetation and from lizards during a 3-mo period in the Hualapai Mountain Park, Mohave County, AZ, in 1991.
(2) And now glimpse those two old foxes, Andreotti and Mitterrand, getting together at a hotel outside Maastricht on the evening before the December 1991 summit, to work out over dinner how they will pin Kohl down to a timetable for a monetary union that was clearly intended to bind a newly (and, for them, alarmingly) united Germany into a tighter European framework.
(3) The film's agenda echoes the Historikerstreit controversy in the late 1980s over interpretations of the Third Reich, and parallels the efforts of former Chancellor Kohl to allow Germans to feel comfortable with their past.
(4) It's true that we are pushing for a certain stability and growth culture, but we're doing this in the European spirit of Konrad Adenauer and Helmut Kohl.
(5) Politicians, such as the Democratic senator Herb Kohl, have belatedly started to ask whether it is growing too fast too soon.
(6) The decline of those taking languages at A-level and subsequently university level compels Professor Kohl of Oxford to to declare, rather prematurely, that languages might soon be the "prerogative of the privately educated elite, and language degrees are restricted to Russell Group universities".
(7) A doctor of law, he was West Germany’s interior minister and one of Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s closest advisers, the go-to guy whenever things got tricky.
(8) Physicians in developed nations with patients from Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa need to factor in the possibility of past or present lead intake from unorthodox sources such as kohl.
(9) The PKK has been listed as a terrorist organisation in Germany since 1993, but many criticise the ban as a diplomatic gift to the Turkish government on behalf of the former chancellor Helmut Kohl that has outlived its relevance .
(10) The former German chancellor Helmut Kohl was the first to discover Merkel, recognising her potential when she was 35, and the press officer of the GDR's Democratic Awakening party.
(11) Twenty were unopened, ready-to-use, samples purchased from retail outlets, 20 were in-use samples obtained from ladies of different socioeconomic standards, and 10 samples were from the original stones used to prepare Al-Kohl.
(12) Kohl says that environmentally-aware German consumers, up to and including the police, have been energised by the Greenpeace campaign against Shell and are planning a mass boycott.
(13) The chancellor's habit of letting reason triumph over visionary impulses and Kohl-type breakaways is clear to see.
(14) A new arbovirus was isolated from Texas, U.S.A., populations of the Cliff Swallow parasits Argas (Argas) cooleyi Kohls and Hoogstraal, 1960.
(15) "Even members of the Kohl government admitted internally: forget about the past," says Hillmer.
(16) Now Chancellor Merkel demonstrates quite clearly that Chancellor Kohl's view about how quickly German opinion could change was actually wrong because she has continued exactly in the tradition that all German leaders have followed since the war.
(17) The German and the European common interests coincide, Merkel avers, echoing Helmut Kohl's mantra in the era of Maastricht and German reunification 20 years ago.
(18) The kohl-using infants were significantly shorter at 3-5 weeks of age (P less than 0.005) but not at the time of the study.
(19) On the same day, the Luxembourg taxman sent back a two-paragraph reply: “Further to your letter... relating to the transactions that [the Dyson group] would like to conduct, I find the contents of said letter to be in compliance with the current tax legislation and administrative practice.” With these words, Kohl provided official sanction for the Dyson scheme to go ahead as PwC had described.
(20) We recommended abandoning Al-Kohl as a cosmetic for application to the eye areas, based on these findings and the previous microbial contamination studies (2).