Meaning | Any of numerous nonpasserine insectivorous climbing birds usually having strong bills for boring wood. |
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Member of | Piciformes, order Piciformes | woodpeckers |
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Narrower | barbet | small brightly colored stout-billed tropical bird having short weak wings |
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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 |
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Spanish | piciforme |
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Catalan | ocell piciforme |
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