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PECKER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Horny projecting mouth of a bird
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pecker" is a kind of...):
mouth (the externally visible part of the oral cavity on the face and the system of organs surrounding the opening)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pecker"):
cere (the fleshy, waxy covering at the base of the upper beak of some birds)
Holonyms ("pecker" is a part of...):
bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)
Derivation:
peck (eat by pecking at, like a bird)
peck (hit lightly with a picking motion)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
Synonyms:
pecker; peckerwood; woodpecker
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("pecker" is a kind of...):
piciform bird (any of numerous nonpasserine insectivorous climbing birds usually having strong bills for boring wood)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pecker"):
green woodpecker; Picus viridis (woodpecker of Europe and western Asia)
downy woodpecker (small North American woodpecker with black and white plumage and a small bill)
flicker (North American woodpecker)
Campephilus principalis; ivory-billed woodpecker; ivorybill (large black-and-white woodpecker of southern United States and Cuba having an ivory bill; nearly extinct)
Melanerpes erythrocephalus; redhead; redheaded woodpecker (black-and-white North American woodpecker having a red head and neck)
sapsucker (small American woodpecker that feeds on sap from e.g. apple and maple trees)
wryneck (Old World woodpecker with a peculiar habit of twisting the neck)
piculet (small woodpeckers of South America and Africa and East Indies having soft rounded tail feathers)
Holonyms ("pecker" is a member of...):
family Picidae; Picidae (woodpeckers)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Obscene terms for penis
Synonyms:
cock; dick; pecker; prick; putz; shaft; tool
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pecker" is a kind of...):
member; penis; phallus (the male sex organ ('member' is a euphemism))
Domain usage:
dirty word; filth; obscenity; smut; vulgarism (an offensive or indecent word or phrase)
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