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Definition of "woodpecker" []

  • Any of various usually brightly colored 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. Also called regionally peckerwood. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "woodpecker" in a sentence
  • "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."
  • "It sure looks like it has venemous fangs, which likely means that woodpecker is dead by the time the camera stops rolling."
  • "My old Audubon Field Guide, twenty-two years old now, same age as my binoculars, says that the red-bellied woodpecker is “chiefly” a Southeastern bird but it ranges farther north and “has expanded its breeding range in recent years to New York and southern New England.”"