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Definition of Green woodpecker
1. Noun. Woodpecker of Europe and western Asia.
Generic synonyms: Pecker, Peckerwood, Woodpecker
Group relationships: Genus Picus, Picus
Definition of Green woodpecker
1. Noun. A European bird, ''Picus viridis''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Green Woodpecker
Literary usage of Green woodpecker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Bristol Naturalists' Society (Bristol, England), Bristol Naturalists' Society (1891)
"The green woodpecker has been described by some as an "awkward" bird ; but I
think those who have spent any time in watching its habits, will agree that ..."
2. The Reign of Law by George Douglas Campbell Argyll (1873)
"Now, no man who had observed this higher law could ever fall into the error of
supposing that the colour of the green woodpecker was given to it as a means ..."
3. A History of British Birds by William Yarrell, Alfred Newton, Howard Saunders (1882)
"THE green woodpecker is the commonest, and therefore the best known of the British
species of its Family, ..."
4. Illustrations of British Ornithology by Prideaux John Selby (1833)
"green woodpecker, Br. Zool. 1. No. 84—Arct. ZooL 2. p. 277. ... green woodpecker
feeds chiefly upon the insects that live in the bark, or that form their ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"The note of the green woodpecker is very unmelodious, far from a song. ...
Although the voice of the green woodpecker can scarcely by any poetic licence be ..."
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