woodhewer
woodhewer noun: any of various passerines of subfamily Dendrocolaptinae, found in South America and Central America having a curved bill, stiff tail feathers, and which feed like woodpeckers; a woodcreeper. Also the alternative form of wood-hewer.
Noun
woodhewer (plural woodhewers)
- Any of various passerines of subfamily Dendrocolaptinae, found in South America and Central America having a curved bill, stiff tail feathers, and which feed like woodpeckers; a woodcreeper.
- A loud series of descending whistles from the dark shadows was an ivory-billed woodhewer; and an explosive song in the undergrowth, a gray-breasted wood wren.1955, Roger Tory Peterson, James Fisher, Wild America, →ISBN
- In the two American families of tyrant-birds and woodhewers, neither of which are songsters, there is in some of the closely-related species a remarkable family resemblance in their voices.2011, William Henry Hudson, Birds and Man, →ISBN, page 22
Also used as
woodhewer is also the alternative form of wood-hewer.
Forms of woodhewer
| plural | woodhewers |
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Origin of woodhewer
From wood + hewer.
Questions about woodhewer
- What does woodhewer mean?
- Woodhewer means any of various passerines of subfamily Dendrocolaptinae, found in South America and Central America having a curved bill, stiff tail feathers, and which feed like woodpeckers; a woodcreeper.
- What part of speech is woodhewer?
- Woodhewer is a noun.
- What is the plural of woodhewer?
- The plural of woodhewer is woodhewers.
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