woodcreeper

woodcreeper
noun
any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers
Syn: ↑woodhewer, ↑wood-creeper, ↑tree creeper
Hypernyms: ↑tyrannid
Member Holonyms: ↑Dendrocolaptidae, ↑family Dendrocolaptidae

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/wood"kree'peuhr/, n.
any of numerous New World tropical songbirds of the family Dendrocolaptidae, having stiffened tail feathers and creeperlike habits. Also called woodhewer.
[WOOD1 + CREEPER]

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