CAMPEPHILUS PRINCIPALIS

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Meaning:

Large black-and-white woodpecker of southern United States and Cuba having an ivory bill; nearly extinct

Synonyms:

Campephilus principalis; ivory-billed woodpecker; ivorybill

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Campephilus principalis" 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)

Holonyms ("Campephilus principalis" is a member of...):

Campephilus; genus Campephilus (a genus of Picidae)

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