1. Any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers
   "The woodcreeper clung to the tree trunk, probing for insects with its curved bill";
   - woodhewer, wood-creeper, tree creeper

Derived forms: woodcreepers, wood-creepers

Type of: tyrannid

Part of: Dendrocolaptidae, family Dendrocolaptidae

Encyclopedia: Woodcreeper