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woodpecker

noun
/ˈwʊdpɛkə/UK/ˈwʊdˌpɛkɚ/US

Etymology

From wood + pecker. Compare Middle English wod spek (“woodpecker”), Middle English wodehake (“woodpecker”), Middle English wodewale (“woodpecker”). Displaced speight.

  1. inherited from pekker
  2. formed as woodpecker — “wood + pecker”

Definitions

  1. Any bird of species-rich family Picidae, with a strong pointed beak suitable for pecking…

    Any bird of species-rich family Picidae, with a strong pointed beak suitable for pecking holes in wood.

    • On its summit towered aloft the fir tree which has often been referred to, like a mighty mast, full of woodpeckers' holes.
    • His skin was scarlet like the head of the green woodpecker.
    • An adult female of this rare woodpecker was taken at 6,000 feet in April 1925 near Chingchuan in the forests of northern Szechuan.

  2. A Type 92 heavy machine gun.

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Derived

acorn woodpecker, African grey woodpecker, Andaman woodpecker, Arabian woodpecker, ashy woodpecker, bamboo woodpecker, banded woodpecker, banded red woodpecker, barred woodpecker, bay woodpecker, bearded woodpecker, beautiful woodpecker, Bennett's woodpecker, black-backed woodpecker, black-cheeked woodpecker, black-headed woodpecker, black-necked woodpecker, black woodpecker, blond-crested woodpecker, bronze-winged woodpecker, brown-capped pygmy woodpecker, brown-capped woodpecker, brown-eared woodpecker, buff-spotted woodpecker, cactus woodpecker, California woodpecker, cardinal woodpecker, checkered woodpecker, chestnut-colored woodpecker, chestnut woodpecker, cinnamon woodpecker, cream-backed woodpecker, crimson-bellied woodpecker, crimson-breasted woodpecker, crimson-crested woodpecker, crimson-mantled woodpecker, crimson-naped woodpecker, crimson-winged woodpecker, Cuban green woodpecker, Cuban ivory-billed woodpecker · +118 more

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