Piculet (redirected from Piculets)

Pic´u`let

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(Zool.) 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.

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piculet - small woodpeckers of South America and Africa and East Indies having soft rounded tail feathers peckerwood, woodpecker, pecker - bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects genus Picumnus, Picumnus - a genus of Picidae