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

• If I walk through a forest in Georgia, where I live, and fail to see or hear the pileated woodpecker, am I permitted to conclude that the bird is absent?
  假如我在我所居住的佐治亚州穿过某个树林时没有看到北美黑啄木鸟或听到它的声音，我是不是就可以说这种鸟不存在呢？
• 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。
• Originally, I thought I was just taking a picture of a green woodpecker flying.
  一开始我只以为自己拍下了啄木鸟飞起来的照片。
• As I search for them, I see a downy woodpecker spiraling up a birch tree, its blaze of reds as sharp as a tongue of flame.
  我四处查看，发现了一支身披厚厚羽毛的啄木鸟正沿着白桦树盘旋上升，它那鲜红的色彩宛如跳跃的火焰。
• Crane's neck is long enough to catch fish and insect, but to be a woodpecker, crane is no good.
  鹤的脖子特长在河边吃鱼、吃小虫子很好，可是要当啄木鸟就不灵了。
• What do we get if we across a woodpecker with a homing pigeon?
  把啄木鸟和信鸽交配能得到什么？
• The woodpecker pecked a hole in the tree.
  啄木鸟在树上啄了一个洞。
• It was the only place left with all nine European woodpecker species, because, he realized, some of them only nest in hollow, dying trees.
  这里是唯一生活着全部九种欧洲啄木鸟的地方。他于是意识到，有些啄木鸟的品种只栖身于中空的、濒临死亡的树木中。
• 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。
• 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。