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woodpecker
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Learner's definition of WOODPECKER
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: a bird that has a very hard beak which it uses to make holes in trees to get insects for food啄木鸟 — see color picture on this page
woodpecker
noun
wood·peck·er ˈwu̇d-ˌpe-kər 
: any of numerous birds (family Picidae) with zygodactyl feet, stiff spiny tail feathers used in climbing or resting on tree trunks, a usually extensible tongue, a very hard bill used to drill the bark or wood of trees for insect food or to excavate nesting cavities, and generally showy parti-colored plumage
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web As the window closes to find more evidence to prove the bird is endangered rather than extinct, those who’ve been searching for the woodpecker are doubling down efforts to stop it from being relinquished to the pages of history books. 
Nick Popowitch, Arkansas Online, 27 July 2022 In a corner, an American three-toed woodpecker sits in a tree. James F. Lee, Washington Post, 7 July 2022 Enlarge / Black woodpecker that was filmed for the study, photographed at Alpenzoo Innbruck, Austria. Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 July 2022 The notion that the woodpecker head primarily needs to be a functional hammer made sense to me. Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 July 2022 Because a woodpecker’s brain and eye are jammed closely together with little room for movement, researchers tracked the eye to analyze how the birds’ brain moved, per the Atlantic’s Ed Yong. Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2022 The bird was once common across the Southeast, including Alabama, but hunting and habitat loss drove the majestic woodpecker nearly -- or perhaps completely -- to extinction, beginning in the early 1800s. Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 15 July 2022 There’s just one problem: As Van Wassenbergh and his colleagues have now shown, woodpecker heads don’t absorb shocks at all. Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 14 July 2022 The woodpecker is back, hammering the gutter above my bedroom window every dawn in a staccato that reverberates through my morning fog louder than last night’s burgundy. Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022 See More
Nick Popowitch, Arkansas Online, 27 July 2022 In a corner, an American three-toed woodpecker sits in a tree. James F. Lee, Washington Post, 7 July 2022 Enlarge / Black woodpecker that was filmed for the study, photographed at Alpenzoo Innbruck, Austria. Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 July 2022 The notion that the woodpecker head primarily needs to be a functional hammer made sense to me. Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 July 2022 Because a woodpecker’s brain and eye are jammed closely together with little room for movement, researchers tracked the eye to analyze how the birds’ brain moved, per the Atlantic’s Ed Yong. Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2022 The bird was once common across the Southeast, including Alabama, but hunting and habitat loss drove the majestic woodpecker nearly -- or perhaps completely -- to extinction, beginning in the early 1800s. Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 15 July 2022 There’s just one problem: As Van Wassenbergh and his colleagues have now shown, woodpecker heads don’t absorb shocks at all. Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 14 July 2022 The woodpecker is back, hammering the gutter above my bedroom window every dawn in a staccato that reverberates through my morning fog louder than last night’s burgundy. Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
circa 1530, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of woodpecker was circa 1530 Phrases Containing woodpecker
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