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单词 picucule
释义

picuculen.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French picucule.
Etymology: < French picucule, bird of the genus Dendrocolaptes (E. L. Daubenton in Buffon Hist. nat. des oiseaux (1780) VII. 82) < a blend of classical Latin pīcus woodpecker (see piciform adj.2) + cuculus cuckoo (see cuckoo n.). N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation as (pi·kiukiūl) /ˈpɪkjuːkjuːl/.
Obsolete.
A bird of the Central and South American passerine family Dendrocolaptidae (or subfamily Dendrocolaptinae of the family Furnariidae), which comprises brown insect-eating forest birds with stiff spiny tails; a woodcreeper.
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picucule1829
sabre-bill1859
wood-hewer1867
1829 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom II. 350 Picucule Creeper, Climbing Grackle. Lath.
1875 A. Newton in Encycl. Brit. III. 743/2 The Picucules [printed Piculules] (Dendrocolaptidæ) with as many genera, and over 200 species.
1894 A. Newton Dict. Birds Picucule, a name..adopted for want of a better, as that of the large Family of Tracheophonæ, Dendrocolaptidæ, which is so highly characteristic of the Neotropical Region.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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