peckerwood
Noun
-
Bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects (synset 101841239)
is a type of: piciform bird - any of numerous nonpasserine insectivorous climbing birds usually having strong bills for boring woodsubtypes:
- green woodpecker, picus viridis - woodpecker of Europe and western Asia
- downy woodpecker - small North American woodpecker with black and white plumage and a small bill
- flicker - North American woodpecker
- campephilus principalis, ivory-billed woodpecker, ivorybill - large black-and-white woodpecker of southern United States and Cuba having an ivory bill; nearly extinct
- melanerpes erythrocephalus, redhead, redheaded woodpecker - black-and-white North American woodpecker having a red head and neck
- sapsucker - small American woodpecker that feeds on sap from e.g. apple and maple trees
- wryneck - Old World woodpecker with a peculiar habit of twisting the neck
- piculet - small woodpeckers of South America and Africa and East Indies having soft rounded tail feathers
belongs to: family picidae, picidae - woodpeckerssame as: pecker, woodpecker
Found on Word Lists
Other Searches
- Rhyme: Dillfrog, RhymeZone
- Definition: Wiktionary, Dictionary.com, Wikipedia, Merriam-Webster, WordNet, Power Thesaurus
- Imagery: Google, Flickr, Bing