||Car`pin*te"ro (kär`pēn*t?"r?),
n. [Sp., a carpenter, a woodpecker.] A
california woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus), noted for
its habit of inserting acorns in holes which it drills in trees.
The acorns become infested by insect larvæ, which, when
grown, are extracted for food by the bird.