minivet

English

Scarlet minivet, Pericrocotus flammeus

Wikispecies

Etymology

1862. Unknown

Noun

minivet (plural minivets)

1. Any of about 13 species of passerine birds in the genus Pericrocotus of the cuckooshrike family of southern and eastern Asia.

Derived terms

• ashy minivet
• brown-rumped minivet
• fiery minivet
• Flores minivet
• grey-chinned minivet
• little minivet
• long-tailed minivet
• rosy minivet
• Ryukyu minivet
• scarlet minivet
• short-billed minivet
• small minivet
• Sunda minivet
• Swinhoe's minivet
• white-bellied minivet

Translations

bird of Pericrocotus

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 山椒鳥／山椒鸟 (shānjiāoniǎo)

• Dutch: menievogel (nl) m
• Finnish: minivetti (fi)
• German: Mennigvogel m
• Japanese: 山椒食 (サンショウクイ, sanshōkui)
• Korean: 할미새사촌 (halmisaesachon)
• Spanish: minivet m