- piciform
[piciform 词源字典] - "Of or relating to the order Piciformes, which includes the woodpeckers and (in later use) the toucans, barbets, puffbirds, jacamars, and honeyguides", Late 19th cent.; earliest use found in Elliott Coues (1842–1889), naturalist and historian. From scientific Latin Picus, genus name ( Linnaeus Systema Naturae (ed. 10, 1758) I. 112, after earlier use by him in Systema Naturae; from classical Latin pīcus woodpecker: see below) + -iform, after scientific Latin Piciformes, suborder name ( E. Coues Key to North American Birds (ed. 2, 1884) iii. ii. 446; earlier as a superfamily name, A. H. Garrod 1874 in Proc. Zool. Soc. 123).[piciform etymology, piciform origin, 英语词源]
