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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A remarkable genus of Picidæ, having the tongue obtuse, brushy, and scarcely extensile, owing to the shortness of the hyoid bones, whose horns do not curl up over the hindhead; the sapsuckers, or sapsucking woodpeckers.

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