Small woodpeckers of South America and Africa and East Indies having soft rounded tail feathers

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A small woodpecker of the genus ''Picumnus'' and other genera in subfamily ''(taxlink Picumninae subfamily noshow=1)''.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. small woodpeckers of South America and Africa and East Indies having soft rounded tail feathers

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Piculet \Pic"u*let\, n. [Dim. of Picus .] (Zo["o]l.) Any species of very small woodpeckers of the genus Picumnus and allied genera. Their tail feathers are not stiff and sharp at the tips, as in ordinary woodpeckers.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The piculets are a distinctive subfamily of small woodpeckers which occur mainly in tropical South America , with just three Asian and one African species . Like the true woodpeckers, piculets have large heads, long tongues which they use to extract their ...