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pileated woodpecker
noun
- a large, black-and-white American woodpecker, Dryocopus pileatus, having a prominent red crest.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pileated woodpecker1
An Americanism dating back to 1775–85
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Example Sentences
It could have been a related species, the pileated woodpecker.
From Washington Post
The log-cock, or pileated woodpecker, the largest and wildest of our Northern species, I have never heard drum.
From Project Gutenberg
Probably red-headed, since the name was misapplied to a specimen of a pileated woodpecker.
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The Pileated Woodpecker is a beautiful bird of great size and strength.
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Scalps of the great pileated woodpecker or cock-of-the-woods (Ceophlaeus pileatus), called Kisl-tā-ke-'keo, also passed as money.
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They can readily be identified, at a great distance, from the Pileated Woodpecker by the large amount of white on the secondaries.
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