SAPSUCKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sapsucker mean? 

• SAPSUCKER (noun)
  The noun SAPSUCKER has 1 sense:

1. small American woodpecker that feeds on sap from e.g. apple and maple trees

  Familiarity information: SAPSUCKER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAPSUCKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small American woodpecker that feeds on sap from e.g. apple and maple trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("sapsucker" is a kind of...):

pecker; peckerwood; woodpecker (bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sapsucker"):

Sphyrapicus varius; yellow-bellied sapsucker (eastern North American sapsucker having a pale yellow abdomen)

red-breasted sapsucker; Sphyrapicus varius ruber (western North American sapsucker)

Holonyms ("sapsucker" is a member of...):

genus Sphyrapicus; Sphyrapicus (a genus of Picidae)