woodhewer noun1 •Any of various passerines of subfamily Dendrocolaptinae, found in South America and Central America having a curved bill, stiff tail feathers, and which feed like woodpeckers; a woodcreeper.A loud series of descending whistles from the dark shadows was an ivory-billed woodhewer; and an explosive song in the undergrowth, a gray-breasted wood wren. — 1955 formswoodhewers
