The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word SAP which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2023.
Part of a woodpecker's diet crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SAP | 100 % | 3 |
Why may SAP be the right solution?
Woodpeckers feed on sap, which is a sticky fluid that flows through the phloem of trees. They use their sharp beaks to create holes in the tree bark and then use their long tongues to extract the sap.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Part of a woodpecker's diet
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Crossword Answer definitions
SAP noun- The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
- Any juice.
- Vitality.
- A naive person; a simpleton
- To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).
- To exhaust the vitality of.
- A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
- To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
- A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
- To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
- To pierce with saps.
- To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
- To gradually weaken.
- To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
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