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Webster 1913 Edition


Picariæ


Pi-ca′ri-æ

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Noun.
pl.
[NL., fr. L.
picus
a woodpecker.]
(Zool.)
An extensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds.