Woodpecker

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  • noun. Any of various 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Any bird of the large family Picidæ, of which there arc numerous genera and some 250 species, in habiting nearly all parts of the world.
  • noun. The Californian wood-pecker, Melanerpes formicivorus bairdi.
  • noun. Specifically, one of these, C. chrysoides, of Arizona, Lower California, and southward, which resembles the common flicker in the body, tail, and wings, but has the head as in the Mexican flicker.
  • noun. In lumbering, a poor chopper.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Any one of numerous species of scansorial birds belonging to Picus and many allied genera of the family Picidæ.
  • noun. a black and white Asiatic hornbill (Buceros pica) which resembles a woodpecker in color.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. One of several species of bird from the family Picidae, with a sharp beak suitable for pecking holes in wood.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
  • Word Usage
    "Yes | No | Report from bookeraptor wrote 6 days 20 hours ago the woodpecker is a Pale-Billed Woodpecker (in the same genus as the Ivory-Billed) from Central America, so that should narrow down what species of snake this is."
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