woodhewer

Etymology

From wood + hewer.

woodhewer means any of various passerines of subfamily Dendrocolaptinae, found in South America and Central America having a curved bill, stiff tail feathers, and which feed like woodpeckers; a woodcreeper. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 86 out of 100.

noun

Any of various passerines of subfamily Dendrocolaptinae, found in South America and Central America having a curved bill, stiff tail feathers, and which feed like woodpeckers; a woodcreeper.“A loud series of descending whistles from the dark shadows was an ivory-billed woodhewer; and an explosive song in the undergrowth, a gray-breasted wood wren.”