piciform bird

Questions about piciform bird

What does piciform bird mean?

piciform bird means "any of numerous nonpasserine insectivorous climbing birds usually having strong bills for boring wood".

Is piciform bird a common word?

piciform bird 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.