stekelstaart.
Common designation for a wide variety of birds with particularly pointy and/or stiff tails
Meaning & usage
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
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
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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