wall creeper
noun
a small, gray and crimson Old World bird, Tichodroma muraria, that inhabits cliffs in mountainous areas.
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Origin of wall creeper
First recorded in 1660–70
Words nearby wall creeper
wall bars, wallboard, wall box, wall brown, wallcovering, wall creeper, walled, walled plain, Wallenberg, Wallenda, Wallensis
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Example sentences from the Web for wall creeper
On the way back to Burguete, a sedge-warbler and a lovely specimen of the wall-creeper—the only one we saw—were obtained.
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British Dictionary definitions for wall creeper
wall creeper
noun
a pink-and-grey woodpecker-like songbird, Tichodroma muraria, of Eurasian mountain regions: family Sittidae (nuthatches)
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