PICULET

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small woodpeckers of South America and Africa and East Indies having soft rounded tail feathers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("piculet" is a kind of...):

pecker; peckerwood; woodpecker (bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects)

Holonyms ("piculet" is a member of...):

genus Picumnus; Picumnus (a genus of Picidae)

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