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crombec /ˈkrɒmbɛk /nounA small African warbler with a very short tail, and grey or green upper parts with rufous or white underparts.- Genus Sylvietta, family Sylviidae: several species, in particular the (northern) crombec (S. brachyura).
The four species of longbills are mostly forest birds with longer bills and tails than crombecs, and mostly very drab in plumage....- New birds will come thick and fast - woodpeckers, kingfishers, barbets, tinkerbirds, widows, cisticolas, apalis and prinias, crombecs, various sparrows and canaries.
- This tour saw all of the possible weavers and crombecs of Kenya.
OriginEarly 20th century: from French, from Dutch krom 'crooked' + bek 'beak'. |