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stekelstaart.

Common designation for a wide variety of birds with particularly pointy and/or stiff tails

12 characters3 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. Common designation for a wide variety of birds with particularly pointy and/or stiff tails any of various furnariid birds (ovenbirds) or spinetails, particularly of the genus Cranioleuca

    masculine
  2. Common designation for a wide variety of birds with particularly pointy and/or stiff tails a stiff-tailed duck; any bird of the subfamily Oxyurinae

    masculine
Where this word comes from

From stekel (“prickle, spine”) + staart (“tail”). Compare English spinetail, which refers to many of the species also indicated with this Dutch term.

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