trepatroncos

Spanish

Etymology

Verb-object compound, composed of trepa (“to climb”) +‎ troncos (“tree trunks”).

Noun

trepatroncos m (plural trepatroncos)

1. woodcreeper
2. treecreeper, better known as the agateador

Further reading

• “trepatroncos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014