Definitions for piculet
piculet

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. piculetnoun

   small woodpeckers of South America and Africa and East Indies having soft rounded tail feathers

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1. Piculet

   The piculets are a distinctive subfamily, Picumninae, of small woodpeckers which occur mainly in tropical South America, with just three Asian and one African species. Like the true woodpeckers, piculets have large heads, long tongues which they use to extract their insect prey and zygodactyl feet, with two toes pointing forward, and two backwards. However, they lack the stiff tail feathers that the true woodpeckers use when climbing trees, so they are more likely than their relatives to perch on a branch rather than an upright trunk. Their bills are shorter and less dagger-like than the true woodpeckers, so they look for insects and grubs mainly in decaying wood. Similarly, they re-use woodpecker holes for nesting, rather than making their own holes. The eggs are white, as with many hole nesters. Typically these birds have grey or dull green upperparts and dark-streaked white underparts.

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1. Piculetnoun

   any species of very small woodpeckers of the genus Picumnus and allied genera. Their tail feathers are not stiff and sharp at the tips, as in ordinary woodpeckers

2. Etymology: [Dim. of Picus.]

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1. Piculet

   The piculets are a distinctive subfamily of small woodpeckers which occur mainly in tropical South America, with just three Asian and one African species. Like the true woodpeckers, piculets have large heads, long tongues which they use to extract their insect prey and zygodactyl feet, with two toes pointing forward, and two backwards. However, but they lack the stiff tail feathers that the true woodpeckers use when climbing trees, so they are more likely than their relatives to perch on a branch rather than an upright trunk. Their bills are shorter and less dagger-like than the true woodpeckers, so they look for insects and grubs mainly in decaying wood. Similarly, they re-use woodpecker holes for nesting, rather than making their own holes. The eggs are white, as with many hole nesters. Typically these birds have grey or dull green upperparts and dark-streaked white underparts.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of piculet in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of piculet in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=piculet
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piculet
3. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/piculet
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=piculet