ivory-bill

See also: ivorybill

English

Noun

ivory-bill (plural ivory-bills)

  1. A large North American woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), having a large, sharp, ivory-colored beak. Its general colour is glossy black, with white secondaries, and a white dorsal stripe. The male has a large, scarlet crest.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for ivory-bill in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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