GREEN WOODPECKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does green woodpecker mean? 

• GREEN WOODPECKER (noun)
  The noun GREEN WOODPECKER has 1 sense:

1. woodpecker of Europe and western Asia

  Familiarity information: GREEN WOODPECKER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREEN WOODPECKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Woodpecker of Europe and western Asia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

green woodpecker; Picus viridis

Hypernyms ("green woodpecker" is a kind of...):

pecker; peckerwood; woodpecker (bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects)

Holonyms ("green woodpecker" is a member of...):

genus Picus; Picus (type genus of Picidae)

 Context examples 

Chattering jays and loud wood-pigeons flapped thickly overhead, while ever and anon the measured tapping of Nature's carpenter, the great green woodpecker, sounded from each wayside grove.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)