Ivorybill

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. See ivory-billed woodpecker.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A large, handsome, black-and-white North American woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), having a large, sharp, ivory-colored beak. Its general color is glossy black, with white secondaries, and a white dorsal stripe. The male has a large, scarlet crest. It is now rare, and found only in the Gulf States and Cuba.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The ivory-billed woodpecker, Campophilus principalis: so called from the ivory-like hardness and whiteness of the bill. See cut under Campophilus. Coues.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. large black-and-white woodpecker of southern United States and Cuba having an ivory bill; nearly extinct
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    ivory-bill   
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    peckerwood    pecker    woodpecker   
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