| 单词 | downy woodpecker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdowny woodpecker downy woodpecker n. a small North American woodpecker, Dendrocopos pubescens, with black and white plumage and, in the male, a red patch on the back of the head. ΚΠ 1785 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. II. 274 (heading) Downy Woodpecker. 1808 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. I. 153 Downy Woodpecker. Picus Pubescens..is the smallest of our Woodpeckers. 1948 Pacific Discov. Mar. 18/1 A harsh spick! note tells of a downy woodpecker in the neighborhood. 2015 L. Erickson & M. Read Into Nest 77/2 Not migratory, Hairy and Downy Woodpeckers tend to spend their lives in a relatively small area. downy woodpecker The three British species are the green woodpecker ( Gecinus viridis), the pied woodpecker or greater spotted woodpecker ( Dendrocopus major), and the barred woodpecker or lesser spotted woodpecker ( D. minor). Others are the great black woodpecker (Picus or Dryocopus martius) of the northern parts of Europe and Asia, and many North American species, as the downy woodpecker (Picus or Dendrocopus pubescens), the golden-winged woodpecker ( Colaptes auratus), the hairy woodpecker (Picus or Dendrocopus villosus), the pileated woodpecker (Hylotomus or Dryotomus pileatus) etc. Several of these are locally known by special names, as flicker n.1, hickwall n., ivory-bill n. at ivory n. Compounds 3, log-cock n. at log n.1 Compounds 2, popinjay n., sap-sucker n. at sap n.1 Compounds 2, witwall n., woodspite n., yaffle n.1, etc. (see these words).extracted from woodpeckern.< as lemmas |
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