woodpecker : Idioms & Phrases


downy woodpecker

  • noun small North American woodpecker with black and white plumage and a small bill
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Green woodpecker

  • noun woodpecker of Europe and western Asia
    Picus viridis.
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  • (Zoöl.), a common European woodpecker (Picus viridis); called also yaffle.
Webster 1913

ivory-billed woodpecker

  • noun large black-and-white woodpecker of southern United States and Cuba having an ivory bill; nearly extinct
    Campephilus principalis; ivorybill.
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Pigeon woodpecker

  • (Zoöl.), the flicker.
Webster 1913

Pileated woodpecker

  • (Zoöl.), a large American woodpecker (Ceophloeus pileatus). It is black, with a bright red pointed crest. Called also logcock, and woodcock.
Webster 1913

redheaded woodpecker

  • noun black-and-white North American woodpecker having a red head and neck
    redhead; Melanerpes erythrocephalus.
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Woodpecker hornbill

  • (Zoöl.), a black and white Asiatic hornbill (Buceros pica) which resembles a woodpecker in color.
Webster 1913