piprites
English
editEtymology
editFrom translingual Piprites.
Noun
editpiprites (plural not attested)
- Any of the tropical birds in the genus Piprites, found in Central and South America.
- 2000, Josep Maria Camarasa, Encyclopedia of the Biosphere: Temperate rainforests, page 155:
- These endangered birds include the Araucaria tit-spinetail (Leptasthenura setaria, Furnariidae), an ovenbird that lives in the top of the crown of the Araucaria; the black - capped piprites (Piprites pileatus)
- 2009, Marc Naguib, Vincent Janik, Nicola Clayton, Vocal Communication in Birds and Mammals, page 17:
- The latter has been demonstrated recently in distantly related tropical species, the plain-winged antshrike (Thamnophilus schistaceus) and the wing-barred piprites (Piprites chloris)
- 2020, JJ Atwood, WR Buck, “Recent literature on bryophytes”, in The Bryologist, BioOne, page 123(2):
- The black-capped piprites Piprites pileata builds a spherical moss nest.