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Meaning of "crombec" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CROMBEC

Via French from Dutch krom crooked + bekbeak1.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF CROMBEC

ˈkrɒmbɛk


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CROMBEC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Crombec is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CROMBEC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Crombec

Sylvietta, the crombecs, is a genus of African warblers. Formerly placed in the massively paraphyletic Sylviidae, it is now considered to belong to a newly recognized family found only in Africa, Macrosphenidae. It contains the following species: ▪ Green Crombec, Sylvietta virens ▪ Lemon-bellied Crombec, Sylvietta denti ▪ White-browed Crombec, Sylvietta leucophrys ▪ Chapin's Crombec, Sylvietta chapini - possibly extinct ▪ Northern Crombec, Sylvietta brachyura ▪ Philippa's Crombec, Sylvietta philippae ▪ Red-capped Crombec, Sylvietta ruficapilla ▪ Red-faced Crombec, Sylvietta whytii ▪ Somali Crombec, Sylvietta isabellina ▪ Long-billed Crombec, Sylvietta rufescens...

Definition of crombec in the English dictionary

The definition of crombec in the dictionary is any African Old World warbler of the genus Sylvietta, having colourful plumage.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CROMBEC

Baalbek · beck · Beiderbecke · Birkbeck · Brubeck · chebec · geelbek · Kazbek · lebbek · Malbec · pinchbeck · Quebec · rebec · Seebeck · Steinbeck · Uzbek · Warbeck · xebec · zebec

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CROMBEC

crofting · crog · croggies · croggy · Crohn´s disease · croissant · Croix de Guerre · crojik · crokinole · Cromalin · Crome · Cromer · cromlech · cromorna · Crompton · Cromwell · Cromwell Current · Cromwellian · crone · cronet

WORDS THAT END LIKE CROMBEC

alec · arcsec · Aztec · codec · cosec · Dec · ec · elec · fennec · Lautrec · Liberec · New Quebec · on spec · pec · rec · sec · Sosnowiec · spec · tec · Toulouse-Lautrec

Synonyms and antonyms of crombec in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «crombec» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF CROMBEC

Find out the translation of crombec to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of crombec from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «crombec» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

crombec
1,325 millions of speakers
es

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Crombec
570 millions of speakers
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English

crombec
510 millions of speakers
hi

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crombec
380 millions of speakers
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crombec
280 millions of speakers
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crombec
278 millions of speakers
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crombec
270 millions of speakers
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crombec
260 millions of speakers
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Crombec
220 millions of speakers
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Crombec
190 millions of speakers
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crombec
180 millions of speakers
ja

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crombec
130 millions of speakers
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crombec
85 millions of speakers
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Crombec
85 millions of speakers
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crombec
80 millions of speakers
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crombec
75 millions of speakers
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क्रॉमबेक
75 millions of speakers
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crombec
70 millions of speakers
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crombec
65 millions of speakers
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crombec
50 millions of speakers
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crombec
40 millions of speakers
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crombec
30 millions of speakers
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crombec
15 millions of speakers
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Crombec
14 millions of speakers
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crombec
10 millions of speakers
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crombec
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of crombec

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CROMBEC»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CROMBEC»

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Birds of the Horn of Africa: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, ...
Crombec. Sylvietta brachyura 8cm, 3" Uniform grey or brownish-grey above, with whitish chin and belly, dark eye-line, and buffy-cinnamon underparts. Two distinctive races occur: nominate (WEr) has supercilium and throat tawny-buff, while ...
Nigel Redman, Terry Stevenson, John Fanshawe, 2009
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Birds of East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi
Sexes are alike. Northern Crombec Sylvietta brachyura 8cm, 3” Uniform grey above, with a whitish face and throat giving a pale-faced appearance, a dark eye- line, and buffy-cinnamon underparts. Two distinct races occur: carnapi (Ug-WKe)  ...
Terry Stevenson, John Fanshawe, 2004
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Sasol Southern African Birds: A Photographic Guide
E Red-faced CrombeC Sylvietta whytH 9-10 cm Rooiwangstompstert While similar to the Long-billed Crombec in appearing almost tailless, this species has a shorter bill, a rich buffy face and undcrparts, and lacks the whitish eyebrow of that ...
Ian Sinclair, Ian Hugh Davidson, 1995
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Short-Billed Crombec
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Lambert M Surhone, Mariam T Tennoe, Susan F Henssonow, 2011
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Birds of Ethiopia and Eritrea: An Atlas of Distribution
Red-faced Crombec Sylvietta whytii ET/ - S.w.loringi (ET). A fairly common Afrotropical breeding resident within its main area of distribution in Ethiopia. It is found in wetter areas than the Northern Crombec, in thornbush, Acacia– Commiphora ...
John Ash, John Atkins, Caroline P. J. Ash, 2009
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A Checklist of the World's Bird Species
Acrocephalus arundinaceus Great Reed-Warbler Sylvietta ruficapilla Red- capped Crombec Acrocephalus atyphus Tuamotu Reed-Warbler Sylvietta virens Green Crombec Acrocephalus australis Australian Reed-Warbler Sylvietta whytii  ...
David Boyd, 2006
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
... Sylviculture USE Forests and forestry Sylvietta (May Subd Geog) [QL696.P2 79 ] BT Sylviidae NT Crombec Red-faced crombec Sylvietta brachyura USE Crombec Sylvietta whytii USE Red-faced crombec Sylviidae (May Subd Geog) [ QL696.
Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office, 2009
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
P279] BT Sylviidae NT Crombec Red-faced Crombec Sylvietta brachyura USE Crombec Sylvietta whytii USE Red-faced Crombec Sylviidae [QL696.P279] UF Old World warblers Sylvinae Warblers, Old World BT Passeriformes NT Cisticola  ...
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Newman's Birds of Southern Africa
... Kurzschwanz-/ Long-billed Crombec 362 Langschnabel-//.ong-bi//ed Crombec 362 Rotohr-/Red-capped Crombec 362 Whytes/Pced-feced Crombec 362 Taubchen, Kap-/A/amaqua Dore 216 Taube, Angolalach-/^frica/i Mourning Dove 216 ...
Kenneth Newman, 2002
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The Larger Illustrated Guide to Birds of Southern Africa
(Long-billed Crombec) 5. ROOIKROONSTOMPSTERT Sylvietta ruficapilla (652) 1 0-1 2 cm Lyk byna stertloos. Word van ander twee stompstertspesies onderskei aan rooibruin oorvlekke en borsband. Voorkop en kroon wissel van ras tot ras, ...
Ian Sinclair, P. A. R. Hockey, 2005

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CROMBEC»

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Support EWT survey to monitor wildlife fatalities on N3 Toll Route
Long-billed Crombec - rescued roadkill. Courtesy of Endangered Wildlife Trust. Road-kill data can be e-mailed to: roads@ewt.org.za or ... «Mail & Guardian Online, Jun 15»
REFERENCE
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