kookaburra
- n Australian kingfisher having a loud cackling cry
- Nigel Reid lurches forward just in time to push a swooping kookaburra off his nut-butter sandwich.
- At one time the belief was popular in Australia that the kookaburra was a mighty destroyer of snakes.
- Among the jack rabbits, kangaroos and kookaburra birds that laugh hysterically and swallow snakes, live half a million farmers who till the fertile belt so successfully that they .