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    WALL CREEPER

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Crimson-and-grey songbird that inhabits town walls and mountain cliffs of southern Eurasia and northern Africaplay

    Synonyms:

    Tichodroma muriaria; tichodrome; wall creeper

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("wall creeper" is a kind of...):

    creeper; tree creeper (any of various small insectivorous birds of the northern hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet)

    Holonyms ("wall creeper" is a member of...):

    genus Tichodroma; Tichodroma (wall creepers; in some classifications placed in family Sittidae)

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