American English pronunciation
How to pronounce woodpecker
IPA transcription: ['wʊd,pɛkɚ]
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Noun
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bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
Usage examples
- His name is a parody of Woody Woodpecker.
- Among the birds, condors, eagles, hawks and woodpeckers can be found here.
- The adult male grey woodpecker has a red crown.
- This species is known in older field guides as a subspecies of Strickland's woodpecker.
- The team was then known as the "Woodville Woodpeckers".
- This woodpecker's voice is a rolling "churr" sound.
- He became also an ornithologist and developed into an expert on woodpeckers.
- Woodpecker finches occur widely in the Galapagos Islands, from sea level to high elevations.
- The Nubian woodpecker is in length seven inches and a half.