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- translingual · calque ofPellorneum nigrocapitatum
- English todayblack-capped babbler
black + capped + babbler, likely a calque of translingual Pellorneum nigrocapitatum.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
black-capped babbler
Today it means: A bird of the species Pellorneum capistratum, Pellorneum nigrocapitatum or Pellorneum capistratoides; formerly considered one species. Full definition →
translingual Pellorneum nigrocapitatum