yellowhammer

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yellowhammer - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Flicker \Flick"er\, n.
     1. The act of wavering or of fluttering; fluctuation; sudden
        and brief increase of brightness; as, the last flicker of
        the dying flame.
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     2. (Zool.) The golden-winged woodpecker (Colaptes aurutus);
        -- so called from its spring note. Called also
        yellow-hammer, high-holder, pigeon woodpecker, and
        yucca.
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              The cackle of the flicker among the oaks.
                                                    --Thoureau.
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  Yellowhammer \Yel"low*ham`mer\, n. [For yellow-ammer, where
     ammer is fr. AS. amore a kind of bird; akin to G. ammer a
     yellow-hammer, OHG. amero.] (Zool.)
        (a) A common European finch (Emberiza citrinella). The
            color of the male is bright yellow on the breast,
            neck, and sides of the head, with the back yellow and
            brown, and the top of the head and the tail quills
            blackish. Called also yellow bunting, scribbling  lark
            , and writing lark. [Written also
            yellow-ammer.]
        (b) The flicker. [Local, U. S.]
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yellowhammer - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  yellowhammer
      n 1: large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and
           yellow undersurface to wings and tail [syn: yellow-shafted flicker
           , Colaptes auratus, yellowhammer]
      2: European bunting the male being bright yellow [syn:
         yellowhammer, yellow bunting, Emberiza citrinella]