tapuit
Dutch
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɑˈpœy̯t/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: ta‧puit
- Rhymes: -œy̯t
Noun
tapuit m (plural tapuiten, diminutive tapuitje n)
- northern wheatear, Oenanthe oenanthe
- Synonym: wijntapper
- chat, wheatear, used of certain songbirds of the subfamily Saxicolinae, especially of the genera Oenanthe, Saxicola, Myrmecocichla, Thamnolaea, Namibornis and Campicoloides; relatively few birds in other genera are called tapuit
Derived terms
Further reading
- tapuit on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
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