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What is a Duchifas? Why is it so-called?

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Rashi and R. Bachye (on Pasuk 7): It is equivalent to a wild rooster (a hoopoe), and is so-called because it is the acronym of ?Hodo Kafus' - its comb is double.

Sefer: Perek: Pasuk:

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