red-headed woodpecker
noun
A North American woodpecker, Melanerpes erythrocephalus, which has a bright red head, neck, and throat, with the rest of the plumage black and white.
Origin
Early 18th century; earliest use found in Mark Catesby (1683–1749), naturalist.
- north-western
- northwesterner
- northwesternmost
- North-West Frontier Province
- North-West Passage
- Northwest Territories
- Northwest Territory
- north-westward
- north-westwardly
- north-westwards
- north wind
- North Woods
- North Yorkshire
- north–south
- nortmast
- nortriptyline
- norvaline
- Norwalk-like
- Norwalk virus
- norward
- nor-wast
- Norway
- Norway crow
- Norway fir
- Norway haddock