Antonyms for woodpecker
ˈwʊdˌpɛk ərwood·peck·er

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1. woodpeckernoun

   Synonyms:
   picid

2. woodpeckernoun

   One of several species of bird from the family Picidae, with a sharp beak suitable for pecking holes in wood.

   Synonyms:
   picid

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1. • Piciform Bird

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. woodpecker, peckerwood, peckernoun

   bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects

   Synonyms:
   dick, neb, bill, cock, tool, prick, nib, shaft, putz, peckerwood, beak, pecker, peter

How to use woodpecker in a sentence?

1. Marina Pacheco:

   I think it was a bit of a long shot -- it looks like it tried to grab the neck of the woodpecker to break it, i think that it probably doesn't have a big enough jaw to bite through the spine of the woodpecker.

2. Tom Robbins:

   When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities.

3. Marina Pacheco:

   If the woodpecker had managed to hit the weasel with its beak it would have been the end of the weasel, they're quite gung-ho little creatures.

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