woodpecker

wood·peck·er  (wdpkr)

n.

Any of various usually brightly colored birds of the family Picidae, having strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for clinging to and climbing trees and a chisellike bill for drilling through bark and wood. Also called regionally peckerwood.

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woodpecker [ˈwʊdˌpɛkə]

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any climbing bird of the family Picidae, typically having a brightly coloured plumage and strong chisel-like bill with which they bore into trees for insects: order Piciformes

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Noun

1.

woodpecker - bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects peckerwood, 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

Translations

woodpecker [ˈwʊdˌpekəʳ] N → pájaro m carpintero
green woodpecker → pito m real
lesser spotted woodpecker → pico m menor

woodpecker [ˈwʊdpɛkə^r] n → pic oiseau)m >
wood pigeon n → pigeon m ramier, ramier m

woodpecker [ˈwʊdˌpɛkəʳ] n → picchio

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woodpecker [ˈwʊdˌpɛkəʳ] n → picchio