peckerwood

peck·er·wood  (pkr-wd)

n. Chiefly Southern U.S.

See woodpecker. See Regional Note at everwhere.

Thesaurus

Noun

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peckerwood - bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects woodpecker, pecker piciform bird - any of numerous nonpasserine insectivorous climbing birds usually having strong bills for boring wood family Picidae, Picidae - woodpeckers green woodpecker, Picus viridis - woodpecker of Europe and western Asia downy woodpecker - small North American woodpecker with black and white plumage and a small bill flicker - North American woodpecker Campephilus principalis, ivory-billed woodpecker, ivorybill - large black-and-white woodpecker of southern United States and Cuba having an ivory bill; nearly extinct Melanerpes erythrocephalus, redheaded woodpecker, redhead - black-and-white North American woodpecker having a red head and neck sapsucker - small American woodpecker that feeds on sap from e.g. apple and maple trees wryneck - Old World woodpecker with a peculiar habit of twisting the neck piculet - small woodpeckers of South America and Africa and East Indies having soft rounded tail feathers