English > woodpecker: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | bird with strong claws / claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects. |
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| Synonyms | peckerwood, pecker |
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| Member of | Picidae, family Picidae | woodpeckers |
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| Narrower | downy woodpecker | small North American woodpecker with black and white plumage and a small bill |
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| flicker | North American woodpecker |
| green woodpecker, Picus viridis | woodpecker of Europe and western Asia |
| ivorybill, ivory-billed woodpecker, Campephilus principalis | large black-and-white woodpecker of southern United States and Cuba having an ivory bill |
| piculet | small woodpeckers of South America and Africa and East Indies having soft rounded tail feathers |
| redheaded woodpecker, redhead, Melanerpes erythrocephalus | 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 |
| Broader | piciform bird | Any of numerous nonpasserine insectivorous climbing birds usually having strong bills for boring wood |
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| Spanish | carpintero, pájaro carpintero, picamaderos |
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| Catalan | picot, pigot |
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