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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The woodpecker: so called with reference to the spotted plumage: locally applied to the greater and lesser spotted woodpeckers, Picus major and P. minor, and the green woodpecker, Gecinus viridis. See cuts under
Picus and popinjay.
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