woodpecker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: From wood + pecker. Compare Middle English wod spek (“woodpecker”), Middle English wodehake (“woodpecker”), Middle English wodewale (“woodpecker”). Displaced speight.
Base: wood
Inflected forms:
form: woodpeckers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any bird of species-rich family Picidae, with a strong pointed beak suitable for pecking holes in wood.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
Birdwatchers would enjoy a host of sparrows, a herd of swans, a descent of woodpeckers, a herd of wrens, and mutation of thrushes.
gloss: A Type 92 heavy machine gun.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Synonyms: speight
spight
Derived words: 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
Darjeeling woodpecker
downy woodpecker
Elliot's woodpecker
Eurasian three-toed woodpecker
European green woodpecker
fine-spotted woodpecker
fire-bellied woodpecker
fulvous-breasted woodpecker
Gabon woodpecker
Gila woodpecker
golden-breasted woodpecker
golden-fronted woodpecker
golden-green woodpecker
golden-olive woodpecker
golden-tailed woodpecker
golden-winged woodpecker
gold-winged woodpecker
greater spotted woodpecker
great slaty woodpecker
great spotted woodpecker
green-barred woodpecker
green woodpecker
grey-capped pygmy woodpecker
grey-crowned woodpecker
grey-headed woodpecker
grey-faced woodpecker
ground woodpecker
Guadeloupe woodpecker
hairy woodpecker
helmeted woodpecker
imperial woodpecker
ivory-billed woodpecker
Japanese green woodpecker
Japanese pygmy woodpecker
Japanese woodpecker
Kaempfer's woodpecker
ladder-backed woodpecker
lesser spotted woodpecker
Levaillant's woodpecker
Lewis's woodpecker
lineated woodpecker
little grey woodpecker
little spotted woodpecker
Magellanic woodpecker
melancholy woodpecker
middle spotted woodpecker
Mombasa woodpecker
mountain grey woodpecker
northern sooty-woodpecker
Nubian woodpecker
Nuttall's woodpecker
ochre-backed woodpecker
Okinawa woodpecker
olive-backed woodpecker
olive woodpecker
orange-backed woodpecker
pale-billed woodpecker
pale-crested woodpecker
pale-headed woodpecker
Philippine pygmy woodpecker
Philippine woodpecker
Piaui woodpecker
pied woodpecker
pied yellow-fronted woodpecker
pigeon woodpecker
pileated woodpecker
Puerto Rican woodpecker
pygmy woodpecker
red-bellied woodpecker
red-cockaded woodpecker
red-collared woodpecker
red-crowned woodpecker
red-headed woodpecker
red-necked woodpecker
red-rumped woodpecker
red-stained woodpecker
red-vented woodpecker
ringed woodpecker
robust woodpecker
rufous-bellied woodpecker
rufous-headed woodpecker
rufous woodpecker
Russian woodpecker
Sarat woodpecker
scaly-bellied woodpecker
scarlet-breasted woodpecker
Sind woodpecker
smoky-brown woodpecker
speckle-throated woodpecker
spotted woodpecker
streak-throated woodpecker
Strickland's woodpecker
stripe-breasted woodpecker
striped woodpecker
Sulawesi pygmy woodpecker
Sulu pygmy woodpecker
Sunda pygmy woodpecker
Syrian woodpecker
three-toed woodpecker
Tristram's woodpecker
true woodpecker
waved woodpecker
West indian woodpecker
white-backed woodpecker
white-bellied woodpecker
white-headed woodpecker
white-naped woodpecker
white-spotted woodpecker
white-throated woodpecker
white woodpecker
woodpeckerlike
yellow-bellied woodpecker
yellow-crested woodpecker
yellow-eared woodpecker
yellow-fronted woodpecker
yellow-throated woodpecker
yellow-tufted woodpecker
Yucatan woodpecker
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