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woodpecker

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Pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)
Pileated woodpecker (Hemicircus canente), Thattekad Bird Sanctuary, Kerala, India

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Fromwood +‎pecker. CompareMiddle Englishwod spek(“woodpecker”),Middle Englishwodehake(“woodpecker”),Middle Englishwodewale(“woodpecker”). Displacedspeight.

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woodpecker (pluralwoodpeckers)

  2. Any bird of species-rich familyPicidae, with a strong pointedbeak suitable forpecking holes inwood.
    • 1886,Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad,Folk and Fairy Tales, page89:
      On its summit towered aloft the fir tree which has often been referred to, like a mighty mast, full ofwoodpeckers' holes.
    • 1922,E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison,The Worm Ouroboros‎[1], London: Jonathan Cape,page19:
      His skin was scarlet like the head of the greenwoodpecker.
    • 1928 August,Outram Bangs,James L. Peters, “Birds Collected by Dr. Joseph F. Rock in Western Kansu and Eastern Tibet”, inBulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy‎[2], volume LXVIII, number 7, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard College,→OCLC,page333:
      An adult female of this rarewoodpecker was taken at 6,000 feet in April 1925 near Chingchuan in the forests of northern Szechuan.
    • 1984,Virginia Wildlife, volume45, Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries:
      Birdwatchers would enjoy a host of sparrows, a herd of swans, a descent ofwoodpeckers, a herd of wrens, and mutation of thrushes.
  3. (militaryslang) AType 92 heavy machine gun.

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bird in Picidae

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