sapsucker
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- noun
- /ˈsæpˌsʌkər/
- US
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sapsucker
- Mr. Energy, everybody calls him, or in saltier moments, Wonder Boy ("That sapsucker don't solve no problems 'cept the ones he makes").
- yellow-bellied sapsucker
Examples
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The Vermont sapsuckers pose an interesting challenge, as Stowe remains a right coast Mecca for sidecountry skiing.
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The yellow-bellied sapsucker feeds on the sap of maple trees during spring.
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"Is this a sapsucker of some kind?
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Karen asks, "Is this some kind of sapsucker and what is he doing?"
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We got other new species for our day list as well: Yellow-bellied Sapsucker and Great Blue Heron.
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Maybe a sapsucker?
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A yellow-bellied sapsucker punched holes into black birch.
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She thinks up creative names: rhinoceros, armadillo, penguin, yellow-bellied sapsucker.
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Every morning, I can hear the sapsucker tapping on the trees in my backyard.
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During our hike, we spotted a sapsucker drilling small holes in an apple tree for sap.
Synonyms
A group of woodpeckers in North America that feed on tree sap
Compounds
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A small woodpecker with a pale yellow belly that drills rows of holes in trees to eat sap and insects
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word sapsucker comes from the two simple parts sap (the tree's 'juice') and sucker ('one who sucks'), so it literally pictures a bird that 'sucks' sap from trees. That's why sapsucker is the name for a small American woodpecker that makes holes in trees and feeds on their sap.