Definition of Family Picidae
1. Noun. Woodpeckers.
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Order Piciformes, Piciformes
Member holonyms: Pecker, Peckerwood, Woodpecker, Genus Picus, Picus, Genus Picoides, Picoides, Colaptes, Genus Colaptes, Campephilus, Genus Campephilus, Genus Melanerpes, Melanerpes, Genus Sphyrapicus, Sphyrapicus, Genus Jynx, Jynx, Genus Picumnus, Picumnus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Picidae
Literary usage of Family Picidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bird Book: Illustrating in Natural Colors More Than Seven Hundred North by Chester Albert Reed (1914)
"Family PICIDAE Woodpeckers are well known birds having sharp chisel-like bills, sharply pointed and stiffened tail feathers, and strongly clawed feet with ..."
2. The Birds of Maine: With Key to and Description of the Various Species Known by Ora Willis Knight (1908)
"... in front and one behind; tail feathers stiff and pointed, well adapted for being used to brace against the trunk of a tree. family Picidae. Woodpeckers. ..."
3. The Birds of Ohio: A Complete Scientific and Popular Description of the 320 by William Leon Dawson, Lynds Jones (1903)
"Family. PICIDAE. Woodpeckers. The characters already given for the order are sufficient. I. Whole top of head red. A. Throat red. 1. ..."
4. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1897)
"Comparative tabulation of percentage of species examined, with variation in the FAMILY. Picidae Tyrannidae Icteridae ..."