'Whooping crane' definitions:
Definition of 'whooping crane'
(from WordNet)
noun
Rare North American crane having black-and-white plumage and a trumpeting call [syn: whooping crane, whooper, Grus americana]
Definition of 'Whooping crane'
From: GCIDE
- Whooping \Whoop"ing\, a. & n. from Whoop, v. t. [1913 Webster]
- Whooping cough (Med.), a violent, convulsive cough, returning at longer or shorter intervals, and consisting of several expirations, followed by a sonorous inspiration, or whoop; chin cough; hooping cough. --Dunglison.
- Whooping crane (Zool.), a North American crane ({Crus Americana}) noted for the loud, whooplike note which it utters.
- Whooping swan (Zool.), the whooper swan. See the Note under Swan. [1913 Webster]