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PICULET

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  small woodpeckers of South America and Africa and East Indies having soft rounded tail feathers
 
 See Also: genus Picumnus, pecker, peckerwood, Picumnus, woodpecker

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Pic"u*let\, n. [Dim. of {Picus}.] (Zo["o]l.)
Any species of very small woodpeckers of the genus {Picumnus}
and allied genera. Their tail feathers are not stiff and
sharp at the tips, as in ordinary woodpeckers.
 

 

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