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PECKERWOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does peckerwood mean? 

PECKERWOOD (noun)
  The noun PECKERWOOD has 1 sense:

1. bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insectsplay

  Familiarity information: PECKERWOOD used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PECKERWOOD (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

pecker; peckerwood; woodpecker

Hypernyms ("peckerwood" is a kind of...):

piciform bird (any of numerous nonpasserine insectivorous climbing birds usually having strong bills for boring wood)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "peckerwood"):

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)

Holonyms ("peckerwood" is a member of...):

family Picidae; Picidae (woodpeckers)


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