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tapaculo

tapaculo

English

Noun

tapaculo (plural tapaculos)

  1. Any of a group of small suboscine passeriform birds found mainly in South America.

Spanish

Etymology

Probably from tapa culo "covers [its] ass", possibly as a reinterpretation of an onomatopoeia of its call.

Noun

tapaculo m (plural tapaculos)

  1. tapaculo