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PICIFORM BIRD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of numerous nonpasserine insectivorous climbing birds usually having strong bills for boring wood
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("piciform bird" is a kind of...):
bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "piciform bird"):
pecker; peckerwood; woodpecker (bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects)
barbet (small brightly colored stout-billed tropical bird having short weak wings)
puffbird (brownish tropical American bird having a large head with fluffed out feathers)
honey guide (small bird of tropical Africa and Asia; feeds on beeswax and honey and larvae)
jacamar (tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage)
toucan (brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak)
Holonyms ("piciform bird" is a member of...):
order Piciformes; Piciformes (woodpeckers; jacamars; puffbirds; barbets; honey guides; toucans)
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