green woodpecker

American  

noun

1. a woodpecker, Picus viridis, of Eurasia and northern Africa, having green plumage with a yellow rump and red on the top of the head.

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green woodpecker British  

noun

1. a European woodpecker, Picus viridis, with a dull green back and wings and a red crown

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Example Sentences

Photograph: Martin Le May/Peter Lawson/East News Press Agency Surely amateur photographer Martin Le-May’s snap of a weasel hitching a lift on a green woodpecker, which went viral earlier this year, is the favourite?

From The Guardian • Sep. 28, 2015

Mr. Croker’s dæmon, a green woodpecker, drilled vigorously into a waste piece of pine with a sound like a machine gun.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

Witwal, wit′wawl, n. the popinjay, or green woodpecker, the greater spotted woodpecker.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

In English it was applied not only to the parrot, but also to the green woodpecker.

From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest

The birds seen were the jay, barbet, red-and-black-headed, variegated short-wing, large ditto of Khegumpa, orange-breasted Trochilus, brown Fringilla, green woodpecker, black pheasant, and small squirrel of Assam was also found.

From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by Griffith, William