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pardalote (iou)



pardalote noun. M19.
[mod. Latin Pardalotus (see below), from Greek pardalotos spotted like a leopard, from pardalis: see PARD noun1.]
Ornithology. Any small insectivorous bird of the Australian genus Pardalotus, having spotted or striped plumage and related to the flower-peckers. Also called diamond-bird.