piculet

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun piculet has 1 sense

piculet(n = noun.animal) Array - small woodpeckers of South America and Africa and East Indies having soft rounded tail feathers; Array

is a member of genus picumnus, picumnus

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CIDE DICTIONARY

piculet, n. [Dim. of Picus.].

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. [1913 Webster]

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