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gnateater

Today it means: Any of the South and Central American passerine birds in the family Conopophagidae. Full definition →

translingual Conopophaga

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translingual · calque ofConopophaga
English todaygnateater

Calque of translingual Conopophaga. By surface analysis, gnat + eater.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.