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Definition of Piculet
1. Noun. Small woodpeckers of South America and Africa and East Indies having soft rounded tail feathers.
Definition of Piculet
1. n. 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.
Definition of Piculet
1. Noun. A small woodpecker of the genus ''Picumnus'' and allied genera. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Piculet
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Piculet
Literary usage of Piculet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Great Mountains and Forests of South America by Paul Fountain (1902)
"So this piculet may have been an unusually marked specimen; or, what is quite as
likely, a new variety. It was scarcely bigger that a wren, ..."
2. The Great Mountains and Forests of South America by Paul Fountain (1902)
"So this piculet may have been an unusually marked specimen; or, what is quite as
likely, a new variety. It was scarcely bigger that a wren, ..."
3. The Great Mountains and Forests of South America by Paul Fountain (1904)
"So this piculet may have been an unusually marked specimen; or, what is quite as
likely, a new variety. It was scarcely bigger that a wren, ..."
4. Fasciculi Malayenses: Anthropological and Zoological Results of an by Nelson Annandale, Herbert C. Robinson (1903)
"'The habits of this piculet, as has also been noted by BUTLER in the case of 5.
innominata, differ considerably from those of the true Wood-peckers. ..."
5. Life After Logging: Reconciling Wildlife Conservation and Production by E. Meijaard (2005)
"In addition, the Speckled piculet (Picumnus innominatus), which is known from
hill forest of northern Borneo, could also occur in the Malinau region, ..."
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