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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A subspecies (Colaptes auratus subsp. auratus) of the northern flicker found in northern and eastern North America, having a black crescent on the breast, a conspicuous white rump, and yellow shafts in the wing and tail feathers.
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- noun A yellow-plumaged
songbird in thehummingbird family, scientific name, native toNorth America , scientific name Colaptes auratus.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and yellow undersurface to wings and tail
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