Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A woodpecker: now applied especially to the little spotted woodpecker, Picus minor, and to the green woodpecker or popinjay, Gecinus riridis, both of Europe.
  • noun The little blue titmouse, Parus cœruleus.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Prov. Eng. The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor) of Europe.

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  • noun UK, dialect The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor) of Europe.

Etymologies

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Old English, also hyghwhele, highawe.

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  • a green woodpecker

    January 9, 2009