woodpecker
any of numerous climbing birds of the family Picidae, having a hard, chisel-like bill that it hammers repeatedly into wood in search of insects, stiff tail feathers to assist in climbing, and usually more or less boldly patterned plumage.
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How to use woodpecker in a sentence
The Texas native blasted the crew for being “hard as woodpecker lips.”
This is how Delta Air Lines Treats Disabled Veterans | Justin Green | December 14, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTCenturus aurifrons dubius (Cabot): Golden-fronted woodpecker.
Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula | Erwin E. KlaasParvulorum, the wodewale is identified with the wodehake, woodpecker; whilst Hexham explains Du.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems | Geoffrey ChaucerThe birds were singing, black squirrels were jumping from bough to bough, and they could hear the tapping of the woodpecker.
Mrs. Falchion, Complete | Gilbert ParkerAs it passed out of the chimney, the soot left those long streaks of black which we see now on the woodpecker's back.
Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children | Mabel Powers
In the summer, they fished and swam in Singing River, and they shot their arrows into chipmunk and woodpecker holes.
Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children | Mabel Powers
British Dictionary definitions for woodpecker
/ (ˈwʊdˌpɛkə) /
any climbing bird of the family Picidae, typically having a brightly coloured plumage and strong chisel-like bill with which they bore into trees for insects: order Piciformes
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