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    WOODPECKER

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     I. (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 insectsplay

    Synonyms:

    pecker; peckerwood; woodpecker

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    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("woodpecker" 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 "woodpecker"):

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

    family Picidae; Picidae (woodpeckers)

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