WOOD-CREEPER

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Meaning:

Any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers

Synonyms:

tree creeper; wood-creeper; woodcreeper; woodhewer

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("wood-creeper" is a kind of...):

tyrannid (a passerine bird of the suborder Tyranni)

Holonyms ("wood-creeper" is a member of...):

Dendrocolaptidae; family Dendrocolaptidae (woodhewers or woodcreepers)