green woodpecker

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noun

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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I really wanted Trenchmouth to succeed and at the time wished we were as big as Green Day.
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It’s cool because Trenchmouth opened for Green Day in the early ‘90s in Wisconsin.
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I just did one [Geezer] with Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day.
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It took me 1,015 strokes to see this shade of green in a world of orange, and my jaw nearly dropped.
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At the highest navigable point of the Congo River, thick jungle creates an impenetrable wall of green around a large island.
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With the dispersal of the spores the cone shrivels up, and then the stems starts to send out green branches.
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Centurus aurifrons dubius (Cabot): Golden-fronted Woodpecker.
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The plant as a whole remains green until late in the autumn.
How to Know the Ferns|S. Leonard Bastin
A few, very few, little dots had run back over that green patch—the others had passed down into the world of darkness.
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I could see only the stretch of green before me, and I felt as if I must walk on forever, without coming to the end of it.
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British Dictionary definitions for green woodpecker

green woodpecker

noun

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

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