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woodpecker Noun a bird with a strong beak with which it bores into trees for insects
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| In one very limited sense, as we shall hereafter see, this may be true; but it is preposterous to attribute to mere external conditions, the structure, for instance, of the woodpecker, with its feet, tail, beak, and tongue, so admirably adapted to catch insects under the bark of trees. A woodpecker stuck his impudent head around the side of a tree. Now, far away in the woods a bird called; another answered; presently the hammering of a woodpecker was heard. |
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