colaptes chrysoides

1. 1.

   southwestern United States bird like the yellow-shafted flicker but lacking the red neck

   Synonymsgilded flicker

   Broaderflicker

Questions about colaptes chrysoides

What does colaptes chrysoides mean?

colaptes chrysoides means "southwestern United States bird like the yellow-shafted flicker but lacking the red neck".

What is another word for colaptes chrysoides?

Close synonyms include gilded flicker. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is colaptes chrysoides a common word?

colaptes chrysoides is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.