Wall creeper Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun crimson-and-grey songbird that inhabits town walls and mountain cliffs of southern Eurasia and northern Africa
    tichodrome; Tichodroma muriaria.

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Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.), a small bright-colored bird (Tichodroma muraria) native of Asia and Southern Europe. It climbs about over old walls and cliffs in search of insects and spiders. Its body is ash-gray above, the wing coverts are carmine-red, the primary quills are mostly red at the base and black distally, some of them with white spots, and the tail is blackish. Called also spider catcher.

Webster 1913