downy woodpecker

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   small North American woodpecker with black and white plumage and a small bill

   Broaderwoodpecker

Questions about downy woodpecker

What does downy woodpecker mean?

downy woodpecker means "small North American woodpecker with black and white plumage and a small bill".

Is downy woodpecker a common word?

downy woodpecker 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.