noun
any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers
• Syn: ↑woodcreeper, ↑wood-creeper, ↑tree creeper
• Hypernyms: ↑tyrannid
• Member Holonyms: ↑Dendrocolaptidae, ↑family Dendrocolaptidae
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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷\ noun1. : any of numerous So. and Central American birds (family Dendrocolaptidae) that have a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers and climb and feed like woodpeckers — called also tree creeper
2. : woodpecker
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/wood"hyooh'euhr/, n.
woodcreeper.
[WOOD1 + HEWER]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.