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tapacolo

tapacolo is the alternative form of tapaculo.

Meaning of tapaculo

Noun

tapaculo (plural tapaculos)

  1. Any member of the family Rhinocryptidae of small suboscine passeriform birds found mainly in South America.

Forms of tapacolo

pluraltapacolos

Origin of tapacolo

Originally a misspelling by Charles Darwin. Darwin's journals were sufficiently influential that this spelling became adopted by many naturalists.

Questions about tapacolo

What is tapacolo the alternative form of?
Tapacolo is the alternative form of tapaculo.

Words near tapacolo in the dictionary

  1. tap-water
  2. tapa
  3. Tapachula
  4. Tapachultec
  5. Tapachulteca
  6. tapacolo
  7. tapacolos
  8. tapaculo
  9. tapaculos
  10. Tapacura
  11. tapadera

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tapacolo (page history and authors); tapaculo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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