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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Any of the genus Iodopleura of small, short-tailed birds found in the canopy of forests in tropical South America.

Etymology

From purple + tuft, a reference to the purple feather tufts on the flanks of the male.

Related phrases

south america

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