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woodpecker

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun woodpecker has 1 sense

woodpecker(n = noun.animal) pecker, peckerwood - bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects; Array

is a kind of piciform bird

is a member of family picidae, picidae

has particulars: green woodpecker, picus viridis, downy woodpecker, flicker, campephilus principalis, ivory-billed woodpecker, ivorybill, melanerpes erythrocephalus, redhead, redheaded woodpecker, sapsucker, wryneck, piculet

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CIDE DICTIONARY

woodpecker, n.

Any one of numerous species of scansorial birds belonging to Picus and many allied genera of the family Picidæ. [1913 Webster]

Woodpecker hornbill (Zoöl.), a black and white Asiatic hornbill (Buceros pica) which resembles a woodpecker in color.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

woodpecker, n. any bird of the family Picidae that climbs and taps tree-trunks in search of insects.

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