stekelstaart

Dutch

Etymology

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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Noun

stekelstaart m (plural stekelstaarten, diminutive stekelstaartje n)

  1. Common designation for a wide variety of birds with particularly pointy and/or stiff tails, particularly:
    1. any of various furnariid birds (ovenbirds) or spinetails, particularly of the genus Cranioleuca
    2. a stiff-tailed duck; any bird of the subfamily Oxyurinae

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