Definitions for woodpecker

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woodpecker wood·peck·er

Spelling: [woo d-pek-er]

IPA: /ˈwʊdˌpɛk ər/

Woodpecker is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 22 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 308 anagrams from letters in woodpecker (cdeekooprw).

Definitions for woodpecker

noun

1. any of numerous climbing birds of the family Picidae, having a hard, chisellike bill that it hammers repeatedly into wood in search of insects, stiff tail feathers to assist in climbing, and usually more or less boldly patterned plumage.

Origin of woodpecker

First recorded in 1520-30; wood¹ + pecker

Examples for woodpecker

A red stick was sent to each one, not forgetting the woodpecker and his family.

As this was probably all the woodpecker was fighting for, he did not give chase.

"He ought not to go without his supper," said the woodpecker.

No woodpecker can make his home in absolutely solid sapwood.

Hence this Colaptes, in all the essential parts of its structure, is a woodpecker.

The animals consecrated to him were the wolf, horse, vulture, and woodpecker.

A woodpecker's telegraphy broke the quiet like a volley of pistol shots.

But little better is the arrangement which the woodpecker calls a home.

The owl represents night, and the woodpecker the day and sun.

The Texas native blasted the crew for being “hard as woodpecker lips.”