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woodhewers

woodhewers is the plural of woodhewer.

Meaning of woodhewer

Noun

woodhewer (plural woodhewers)

  1. 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

Questions about woodhewers

What is woodhewers the plural of?
Woodhewers is the plural of woodhewer.

Words near woodhewers in the dictionary

  1. woodhen
  2. woodhenge
  3. woodhenges
  4. woodhens
  5. woodhewer
  6. woodhewers
  7. woodhole
  8. woodholes
  9. woodhoopoe
  10. woodhoopoes
  11. Woodhorn

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