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woodpecker

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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.

woodpecker
Noun
a bird with a strong beak with which it bores into trees for insects
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.woodpeckerwoodpecker - bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
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
Spanish woodpecker [ˈwudpɛkəʳ] npájaro carpintero
French woodpecker [ˈwudpɛkəʳ] npic m (oiseau)
German woodpecker [ˈwudpɛkəʳ] wood nSpecht m
Italian woodpecker [ˈwudpɛkəʳ] npicchio

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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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