tapaculo
English
White throated tapaculo
Alternative forms
Noun
tapaculo (plural tapaculos)
- Any of a family (Rhinocryptidae) of small suboscine passeriform birds found mainly in South America.
Spanish
Etymology
Verb-object compound, composed of tapa (“to cover”) + culo (“ass/arse”), possibly as a reinterpretation of an onomatopoeia of its call.
Further reading
- “tapaculo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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