单词 | hairy woodpecker |
释义 | > as lemmashairy woodpecker hairy woodpecker n. U.S. a common woodpecker ( Dendrocopus auduboni or D. villosus) of the eastern parts of North America. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > member of genus Picoides witwall1668 pianet1706 hairy woodpecker1731 sap-sucker1805 ladder woodpecker1870 ladder-back woodpecker1884 1731 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina I. 19 Picus medius, quasi villosus. The Hairy Woodpecker, weighs two ounces. 1808 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. I. 150 [The] Hairy Woodpecker..is another of our resident birds,..a haunter of orchards, and lover of apple trees, an eager hunter of insects. 1839 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. V. 164 The Hairy Woodpecker, P[icus] villosus, is a constant resident in our maritime and inland districts. 1880 Harper's Mag. Oct. 672/2 Picus auduboni is not now recognized as a valid species, but only as a local variety of the hairy woodpecker. 1896 R. B. Sharpe Hand-bk. Birds Great Brit. II. 11 On two occasions the Hairy Woodpecker is said to have occurred in the British Islands. 1956 L. W. Wing Nat. Hist. Birds ii. 26 The Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers of North America bear striking resemblances to each other. hairy 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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