English Explanatory Dictionary

woodwall

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The yaffle bird; the European green woodpecker.

Word forms

woodwall woodwalls woodwale woodwele

Etymology

From Middle English wodewale, of uncertain origin, probably from Old English, but perhaps from Middle Dutch wedewale with 1st element reanalyzed as from Middle English wode (“wood”).

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