woodpecker

英 [ˈwʊdpekə(r)]

美 [ˈwʊdpekər]

n.  啄木鸟

复数：woodpeckers　

CET6

BNC.24508 / COCA.16605

牛津词典

noun

• 啄木鸟
  a bird with a long beak that it uses to make holes in trees when it is looking for insects to eat

柯林斯词典

• 啄木鸟
  Awoodpeckeris a type of bird with a long sharp beak. Woodpeckers use their beaks to make holes in tree trunks.

英英释义

noun

• bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
  Synonym:peckerwoodpecker

双语例句

• But they are not enough to stand on the trees. A woodpecker needs help from its tail.
  它在树上自由攀登可不能没有这个神奇的尾巴。
• Then in2004 a kayaker caught a glimpse of a majestic woodpecker in a wildlife refuge in Arkansas.
  直到2004年，一艘皮艇上的人在阿肯色州的自然保护区捕捉到了一只雄壮的啄木鸟的身影。
• Large black-and-white woodpecker of southern United States and Cuba having an ivory bill; nearly extinct.
  美国南部和古巴长有象牙喙的大型黑白色啄木鸟；几乎已灭绝。
• Some fear the new protections might push species such as the Texas kangaroo rat or the golden-winged warbler down the same road to extinction as the ivory-billed woodpecker.
  一些人担心，新的保护动作将使如德州戴鼠鼠和金翅萤森莺这样的物种走上和象牙嘴啄木鸟一样的灭绝之路。
• Old World woodpecker with a peculiar habit of twisting the neck.
  东半球有特殊的扭脖子习惯的啄木鸟。
• The last undisputed report of an ivory-billed woodpecker in continental North America was in Louisiana in1944.
  学术界最后一次对一只北美大陆象牙喙啄木鸟发布的广为认同的报告是在1944年的路易斯安那州。
• Small American woodpecker that feeds on sap from e.g. apple and maple trees.
  以苹果树和枫树等树木的树汁为食的美洲小啄木鸟。
• Black-and-white North American woodpecker having a red head and neck.
  红头红颈的黑白色北美洲啄木鸟。
• John Fitzpatrick, director of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and one of the leading figures in the search for the woodpecker, agrees there is a high probability that the bird is gone.
  约翰·帕特里克作为康奈尔鸟类学实验室的一把手同时那次搜寻啄木鸟行动中的领军人物之一，认为该种鸟类非常可能已经消失殆尽。
• The woodpecker flied for a long, long distance, and finally, she reached the city the girl lived in at last.
  啄木鸟飞了很远很远的路程，最后终于到了女孩所在的城市。