Yellowhammer - Dictionary Definition and Overview

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

Based on WordNet 2.0

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.] (Zo["o]l.) (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.]

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Flicker \Flick"er\, n. 1. The act of wavering or of fluttering; flucuation; sudden and brief increase of brightness; as, the last flicker of the dying flame.

2. (Zo["o]l.) The golden-winged woodpecker ({Colaptes aurutus); -- so called from its spring note. Called also yellow-hammer, high-holder, pigeon woodpecker, and yucca.

The cackle of the flicker among the oaks. --Thoureau.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)