piciform bird
English Thesaurus
1. any of numerous nonpasserine insectivorous climbing birds usually having strong bills for boring wood (noun.animal)
hypernym | : | bird, |
definition | : | warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | pecker, peckerwood, woodpecker, |
definition | : | bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | barbet, |
definition | : | small brightly colored stout-billed tropical bird having short weak wings (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | puffbird, |
definition | : | brownish tropical American bird having a large head with fluffed out feathers (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | honey guide, |
definition | : | small bird of tropical Africa and Asia; feeds on beeswax and honey and larvae (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | jacamar, |
definition | : | tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | toucan, |
definition | : | brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak (noun.animal) |
member meronym | : | order piciformes, piciformes, |
definition | : | woodpeckers; jacamars; puffbirds; barbets; honey guides; toucans (noun.animal) |
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