Definitions
bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
Word origin
From wood + pecker. Compare Middle English wod spek (“woodpecker”), Middle English wodehake (“woodpecker”), Middle English wodewale (“woodpecker”). Displaced speight.
Used in a sentence
“On its summit towered aloft the fir tree which has often been referred to, like a mighty mast, full of woodpeckers' holes.”
“His skin was scarlet like the head of the green woodpecker.”
“An adult female of this rare woodpecker was taken at 6,000 feet in April 1925 near Chingchuan in the forests of northern Szechuan.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“bark-drilling bird”10 letters
02“Tree-drilling bird”10 letters
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