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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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 North American woodpecker with black and white plumage and a small bill.
  北美洲的小啄木鸟，黑色或白色羽毛，小嘴。
• 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。
• But if it's a woodpecker she will find no man at all.
  但倘若看到的是一只啄木鸟的话那她就不会找到如意郎君。
• 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？
• This Russian "Woodpecker" signal was traveling across the world from a transmitter near Kiev.
  这一俄罗斯“啄木鸟”信号正从基辅附近的一个发射塔发出穿越世界。
• The ivory-billed woodpecker was once found across the swampy forests of the south-eastern states.
  曾有人在东南部的沼泽森林一带时发现过象牙喙啄木鸟。
• 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。