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WOODPECKERS

"WOODPECKERS" is a plural of: woodpecker.

Date "WOODPECKERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1854. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: WOODPECKERS

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Food & Agriculture

Family of birds that have zygodactyl feet, stiff spiny tail feathers used in climbing. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Woodpecker

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Woodpeckers
Pileated Woodpecker
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Piciformes
Family:Picidae
Genera
many: see species list

Woodpeckers are near passerine birds of the order Piciformes. They have a world-wide distribution with many species, usually numbered at 218 (including the Ivory-billed).

Some woodpeckers and wrynecks in the order Piciformes have zygodactyl or “yoked" feet, with two toes pointing forward, and two backward. These feet, though adapted for clinging to a vertical surface, can be used for grasping or perching. Several species have only three toes. The long tongue found in some woodpeckers can be darted forward to capture insects.

Woodpeckers gained their English name because of the habit of some species of tapping and pecking noisily on tree trunks with their beaks. This is both a means of communication to signal possession of territory to their rivals, and a method of echo-locating grubs under the bark of the tree.

This group is related to other Piciformes as below:

Order Piciformes

The last two families are sometimes separated as the order Gabuliformes.

Two distinctive groups of small woodpeckers, the wrynecks, genus Jynx, and the piculets, genera Picumnus, Sasia and Nesoctites, have their own group articles.

Species list

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Synonym: WOODPECKERS

Synonym by domain: picidae (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology).

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Crosswords: WOODPECKERS

English words defined with "WOODPECKERS": family Picidae ♦ order Piciformes ♦ Pici, Picidae, Piciformes, Picine, piculet ♦ Sap sucker, Saurognathous, Scansorial tail ♦ tree creeper ♦ woodcreeper, woodhewer ♦ Yoke-toed. (references)

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Modern Usage: WOODPECKERS

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Movie/TV Titles

Three Little Woodpeckers (1965)

Training Woodpeckers (1921)

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Commercial Usage: WOODPECKERS

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Books

  • Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa: Terns Woodpeckers (Birds of the Western Paleartic) (reference)

  • Nonpasserines: Diurnal Birds of Prey Through Woodpeckers (The Birds of British Columbia , Vol 2) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Image Slideshow: WOODPECKERS

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Photo Album: WOODPECKERS

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Red Cockaded Woodpeckers. Credit: Bob Savannah.

The lumber merchant: But wot's the idea buildin' a stone house? : the owner: Sh-h! woodpeckers!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Use in Literature: WOODPECKERS

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Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

There were marks of an axe and of woodpeckers on the butt

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Usage Frequency: WOODPECKERS

"WOODPECKERS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 96.00% of the time. "WOODPECKERS" is used about 50 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (plural)96%4849,194
Noun (proper)4%2245,945
                    Total100.00%50N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: WOODPECKERS

Language Translations for "WOODPECKERS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

spaettefugle (picidae). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

spechten (picidae). (various references)

   

French

  

pics-vrais, picidés. (various references)

   

German

  

Spechte (picidae). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

δρυοκολάπτες (picidae), δρυοκολαπτίδες (picidae). (various references)

   

Italian

  

picidi (picidae). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oodpeckersway.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

pica-paus (picidae). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: WOODPECKERS

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Picidae. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: WOODPECKERS

Misspellings

"WOODPECKERS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: oxpeckers. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "WOODPECKERS"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "WOODPECKERS" (pronounced wuh"dpe'kerz)
3-k er zacres, anchors, askers, attackers, automakers, autoworkers, conquers, cookers, backers, bakers, bankers, Barkers, Bickers, bikers, blockers, bloodsuckers, bonkers, bookers, breakers, brokers, bunkers, cankers, caretakers, carjackers, carmakers, caseworkers, checkers, clockers, clunkers, coworkers, crackers, dockers, dockworkers, dressmakers, drinkers, drugmakers, fakers, farmworkers, filmmakers, firecrackers, flickers, freethinkers, gawkers, hackers, hawkers, hijackers, hikers, homemakers, hookers, icebreakers, jokers, kickers, knickerbockers, knickers, Lakers, lawbreakers, lawmakers, leakers, linebackers, liquors, lockers, lookers, loudspeakers, makers, markers, massacres, matchmakers, metalworkers, moneymakers, monikers, moviemakers, newsmakers, nonsmokers, oddsmakers, onlookers, pacemakers, packers, parkers, peacemakers, pickers, plunkers, printmakers, quakers, rackers, rakers, rankers, rockers, seekers, shakers, shoemakers, slackers, sleepwalkers, slickers, smokers, sneakers, snickers, speakers, squeakers, stalkers, steelmakers, steelworkers, stickers, stinkers, stockbrokers, strikebreakers, strikers, suckers, takers, talkers, tankers, thinkers, toolmakers, trackers, traffickers, troublemakers, truckers, vicars, walkers, whiskers, woodworkers, workers, Yonkers, younkers.

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Anagrams: WOODPECKERS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: peckerwoods.

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-k-o-o-p-r-s-w"

-1 letter: peckerwood, woodpecker.

-2 letters: precooked, rockweeds.

-3 letters: coopered, cowpokes, escrowed, precodes, precooks, proceeds, recooked, rockweed, scrooped.

-4 letters: cookers, coopers, cowered, cowpoke, crooked, deckers, deposer, dockers, operose, peckers, powders, powered, precode, precook, proceed, recodes, recooks, redocks, reposed, resowed, respoke, scooped, scooper, scowder, screwed, specked, spooked, spoored, swooped, swooper, woopsed, wrecked.

-5 letters: ceders, coders, cooeed, cooees, cooers, cooked.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern 		5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Fiction 		9. Usage Frequency
10. Translations: Modern
11. Translations: Ancient
12. Derivations 		13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Bibliography


  

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