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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: Australian kingfisher having a loud cackling cry [syn: kookaburra, laughing jackass, Dacelo gigas]
2: almost extinct owl of New Zealand [syn: laughing owl, laughing jackass, Sceloglaux albifacies]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1798 kookaburra

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Jackass Jack"ass`, n. [2d jack + ass.] 1. The male ass; a donkey. 2. A conceited dolt; a perverse blockhead. Jackass bark (Naut.), a three-masted vessel, with only the foremast square-rigged; a barkentine. Jackass deer (Zo["o]l.), the koba. Jackass hare, Jackass rabbit (Zo["o]l.). See Jack rabbit, under 2d Jack, n. Jackass penguin (Zo["o]l.), any species of penguin of the genus Spheniscus, of which several are known. One species (S. demersus) inhabits the islands near the Cape of Good Hope; another (S. Magellanicus) is found at the Falkland Islands. They make a noise like the braying of an ass; -- hence the name. Laughing jackass. (Zo["o]l.) See under Laughing.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Laughing goose (Zo["o]l.), the European white-fronted goose. Laughing gull. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A common European gull (Xema ridibundus); -- called also pewit, black cap, red-legged gull, and sea crow. (b) An American gull (Larus atricilla). In summer the head is nearly black, the back slate color, and the five outer primaries black. Laughing hyena (Zo["o]l.), the spotted hyena. See Hyena. Laughing jackass (Zo["o]l.), the great brown kingfisher (Dacelo gigas), of Australia; -- called also giant kingfisher, and gogobera. Laughing owl (Zo["o]l.), a peculiar owl (Sceloglaux albifacies) of New Zealand, said to be on the verge of extinction. The name alludes to its notes.