WALL CREEPER

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Meaning:

Crimson-and-grey songbird that inhabits town walls and mountain cliffs of southern Eurasia and northern Africa

Synonyms:

Tichodroma muriaria; tichodrome; wall creeper

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("wall creeper" is a kind of...):

creeper; tree creeper (any of various small insectivorous birds of the northern hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet)

Holonyms ("wall creeper" is a member of...):

genus Tichodroma; Tichodroma (wall creepers; in some classifications placed in family Sittidae)

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