TREE CREEPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tree creeper mean? 

• TREE CREEPER (noun)
  The noun TREE CREEPER has 2 senses:

1. 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

2. any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers

  Familiarity information: TREE CREEPER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TREE CREEPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

creeper; tree creeper

Hypernyms ("tree creeper" is a kind of...):

oscine; oscine bird (passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tree creeper"):

American creeper; brown creeper; Certhia americana (a common creeper in North America with a down-curved bill)

Certhia familiaris; European creeper (common European brown-and-buff tree creeper with down-curved bill)

Tichodroma muriaria; tichodrome; wall creeper (crimson-and-grey songbird that inhabits town walls and mountain cliffs of southern Eurasia and northern Africa)

Holonyms ("tree creeper" is a member of...):

Certhiidae; family Certhiidae (creepers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

tree creeper; wood-creeper; woodcreeper; woodhewer

Hypernyms ("tree creeper" is a kind of...):

tyrannid (a passerine bird of the suborder Tyranni)

Holonyms ("tree creeper" is a member of...):

Dendrocolaptidae; family Dendrocolaptidae (woodhewers or woodcreepers)