PeckerwoodWordNet Explorer

bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects

any of numerous nonpasserine insectivorous climbing birds usually having strong bills for boring wood

woodpeckers

woodpecker of Europe and western Asia

small North American woodpecker with black and white plumage and a small bill

North American woodpecker

large black-and-white woodpecker of southern United States and Cuba having an ivory bill; nearly extinct

black-and-white North American woodpecker having a red head and neck