Dictionary entry
chegecheehl • n • red-breasted sapsucker (Sphyrapicus ruber)
Lexicon record # 23 | Source reference(s):
R190 JE180 FS(B198)
Semantic
domain: birds
Sentence examples (3)
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[Ch'ue'ch'eesh hes wee' k'ee chegecheehl?] Chegecheehl kwel kem 'ok'w 'we-cheeesh, weeshteesh mehl 'we-chegecheehl.
[Is the sapsucker a ch'u'ch'ish?] Chegechihl also has a topknot, that's why they call them chegechihl.
— Alice Spott, Ethnobiology (AS1, 1962 or 1963)