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Galley-bird :: Galley-bird (n.) The European green woodpecker; also, the spotted woodpecker..

Ivory-bill :: Ivory-bill (n.) A large, handsome, North American woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), having a large, sharp, ivory-colored beak. Its general color is glossy black, with white secondaries, and a white dorsal stripe. The male has a large, scarlet crest. It is now rare, and found only in the Gulf States..

Piciformes :: Piciformes (n. pl.) A group of birds including the woodpeckers, toucans, barbets, colies, kingfishes, hornbills, and some other related groups..

Pici :: Pici (n. pl.) A division of birds including the woodpeckers and wrynecks.

Yaffle :: Yaffle (n.) The European green woodpecker (Picus, / Genius, viridis). It is noted for its loud laughlike note. Called also eccle, hewhole, highhoe, laughing bird, popinjay, rain bird, yaffil, yaffler, yaffingale, yappingale, yackel, and woodhack..

Redhead :: Redhead (n.) The red-headed woodpecker. See Woodpecker.

Picine :: Picine (a.) Of or pertaining to the woodpeckers (Pici), or to the Piciformes..

Tapper :: Tapper (n.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor); -- called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer..

Woodchuck :: Woodchuck (n.) The yaffle, or green woodpecker..

Crankbird :: Crankbird (n.) A small European woodpecker (Picus minor).

Pecker :: Pecker (n.) One who, or that which, pecks; specif., a bird that pecks holes in trees; a woodpecker..

Speight :: Speight (n.) A woodpecker; -- called also specht, spekt, spight..

Carpintero :: Carpintero (n.) A california woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus), noted for its habit of inserting acorns in holes which it drills in trees. The acorns become infested by insect larvae, which, when grown, are extracted for food by the bird..

Picus :: Picus (n.) A genus of woodpeckers, including some of the common American and European species..

Woodpeck :: Woodpeck (n.) A woodpecker.

Whetile :: Whetile (n.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle. See Yaffle..

Piculet :: Piculet (n.) Any species of very small woodpeckers of the genus Picumnus and allied genera. Their tail feathers are not stiff and sharp at the tips, as in ordinary woodpeckers..

Saurognathous :: Saurognathous (a.) Having the bones of the palate arranged as in saurians, the vomer consisting of two lateral halves, as in the woodpeckers (Pici)..

Scansorial :: Scansorial (a.) Capable of climbing; as, the woodpecker is a scansorial bird; adapted for climbing; as, a scansorial foot..

Logcock :: Logcock (n.) The pileated woodpecker.

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