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Meanings of woodpecker in English
Bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects.
Usage of woodpecker in English
1
The high point of the expedition was not, however, the endangered woodpecker.
2
High up in the hemlock forests is the interesting Alpine three-toed woodpecker.
3
Seventy-five per cent of the food of the downy woodpecker is insects.
4
What I have said about the woodpecker applies also to the mistletoe.
5
Saw the speckled woodpecker, bee martin and log cock or large woodpecker.
6
A woodpecker stuck his impudent head around the side of a tree.
7
Based on these observations, he thinks the ivory-billed woodpecker's survival remains unproven.
8
It was only foolishly effusive, but the woodpecker was a veritable Bluebeard.
9
The steady tapping was a woodpecker at work upon an old tree.
10
The animals consecrated to him were the wolf, horse, vulture, and woodpecker.
11
If a woodpecker raps on the house, someone is going to die.
12
A woodpecker ran up a tree and pulled out a white grub.
13
The woodpecker's hammer helps the field-music, wherever he can find a tree.
14
Parrakeet, ivory-billed woodpecker, passenger pigeon, whooping crane, pinnated grouse; bison, elk, beaver.
15
He was tapping chestnut trees over on Peck's Hill like a woodpecker.
16
Only the black woodpecker continues his constant hammering on the tree trunks.
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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