piciform_bird (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *piciform bird*:
NOUN	animal	piciform bird	any of numerous nonpasserine insectivorous climbing birds usually having strong bills for boring wood

English > *piciform bird*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	Any of numerous nonpasserine insectivorous climbing birds usually having strong bills for boring wood.
Member of	Piciformes, order Piciformes	woodpeckers
Narrower	barbet	small brightly colored stout-billed tropical bird having short weak wings
	honey guide	small bird of tropical Africa and Asia
	jacamar	Tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage
	puffbird	brownish tropical American bird having a large head with fluffed out feathers
	toucan	brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak
	woodpecker, peckerwood, pecker	bird with strong claws / claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
Broader	bird	warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
Spanish	piciforme
Catalan	ocell piciforme

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