单词 | nunlet |
释义 | nunletn. Any of several small Central and South American puffbirds of the genus Nonnula, having chiefly brown, grey, and white plumage. Cf. nunbird n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Bucconidae (puff-bird) > other types nunlet1899 1899 Cambr. Nat. Hist. IX. 447 The Nunlets..are distributed from Panama to Peru and Brazil; they are brown above and ferruginous beneath, with a little white. 1982 Amer. Naturalist 119 233 Only a few species are known..(Nonnula frontalis, gray-cheeked nunlet). 1985 C. M. Perrins & A. L. A. Middleton Encycl. Birds 295/3 The five species of nunlets are small nunbirds that range from Panama to N Argentina. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1899 |
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