Definition of peckerwood Peckerwood
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What does peckerwood mean?
WordNet
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| peckerwood - bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects | ||
| woodpecker, pecker | ||
| piciform bird any of numerous nonpasserine insectivorous climbing birds usually having strong bills for boring wood | ||
| family picidae, picidae woodpeckers | ||
| 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, redheaded woodpecker, redhead 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 | ||
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