Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun woodpecker

1 sense of woodpecker

Sense 1
woodpecker, peckerwood, pecker -- (bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects)
       => piciform bird -- (any of numerous nonpasserine insectivorous climbing birds usually having strong bills for boring wood)