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TICHODROMA MURIARIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Tichodroma muriaria mean?
• TICHODROMA MURIARIA (noun)
The noun TICHODROMA MURIARIA has 1 sense:
1. crimson-and-grey songbird that inhabits town walls and mountain cliffs of southern Eurasia and northern Africa
Familiarity information: TICHODROMA MURIARIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Crimson-and-grey songbird that inhabits town walls and mountain cliffs of southern Eurasia and northern Africa
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Tichodroma muriaria; tichodrome; wall creeper
Hypernyms ("Tichodroma muriaria" is a kind of...):
creeper; tree creeper (any of various small insectivorous birds of the northern hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet)
Holonyms ("Tichodroma muriaria" is a member of...):
genus Tichodroma; Tichodroma (wall creepers; in some classifications placed in family Sittidae)
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