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Speight


Definition:

  • (n.) A woodpecker; -- called also specht, spekt, spight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Previous studies conducted in the nominal absence of exogenous CO2 and HCO3- suggested that the acidification was due to a proton-secretory rather than bicarbonate-reabsorptive mechanism (Thomson, R.B., Speight, J.D., Phillips, J.E.
  • (2) "The growing tally of 17,700 job losses since the formation of the bank is disgraceful," Speight said.
  • (3) Cath Speight, Unite national officer, described the cuts as "extremely alarming".
  • (4) There is widespread expectation that the commission's members, who include the Liberal Democrat Lord Lester, Labour's Lady Kennedy and the Conservative Anthony Speight QC, will fail to reach a consensus and end up in political stalemate, unable to agree on a common set of recommendations.
  • (5) The sentiment was echoed by Unite, whose national officer, Cath Speight, said: "It is an absolute disgrace that Lloyds Banking Group which is being kept alive by the taxpayer is cutting more jobs and moving their jobs out of the UK.

Woodpecker


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of scansorial birds belonging to Picus and many allied genera of the family Picidae.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A blackbird is broadcasting its mellifluous song, a squirrel runs up a nearby tree and surprisingly, given that we are in central London, we can both hear a woodpecker knocking.
  • (2) The only sound is the astonishing cackle of a green woodpecker.
  • (3) You will see woodpeckers and treecreepers, and all the flora you would expect.
  • (4) Cystacanths later recovered from the woodroaches developed into mature worms when pipetted into esophaguses of red-bellied woodpeckers, Centurus carolinius: red-headed woodpeckers, Melanerpes erythrocephalus; yellow-shafted flickers, Colaptes auratus; and a hairy woodpecker, Dendrocopos villosus.
  • (5) Furthermore, all these impacts could occur simultaneously, posing a particularly devastating threat to already vulnerable species and systems.” They note the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker as an example; it lives in longleaf pine forests, which will likely be among the forest casualties in this new urban wasteland.
  • (6) Ceca are absent in woodpeckers, hummingbirds, swifts, kingfishers, pigeons, mousebirds, cuckoos, and parrots.
  • (7) From Tring station there's a four- or a six-mile circular route through an area with lots of wildlife including red kites, goldcrests, lesser spotted woodpeckers and wild fallow deer.
  • (8) One woodpecker finch, Cactospiza pallida, was found to be infected with I. exigua, and a warbler finch, Certhidea olivacea was infected with I. fragmenta.
  • (9) Luddenden Brook runs through it, there are shaded walks criss crossing throughout, rare plants, woodpeckers and deer - and you can camp very cheaply at the council-run Jerusalem Farm on the edge of the woods.
  • (10) Phosalone had little effect on brain ChE activity of birds from treated groves; only slight to moderate (21 to 38%) ChE inhibition was detected in blue jays (Cyanocitta cristata) and red-bellied woodpeckers (Melanerpes carolinus).
  • (11) As a contrast, it depleted 60-80% of both NE and E from the innervated glands as compared to 17-43% reduction from the denervated glands in nonpasserine (woodpecker, parakeet, and koel) birds.
  • (12) Cystacanths fed starlings, Sturnus vaulgaris, and red-winged blackbirds, Agelaius phoeniceus, did not produce infections although cystacanths from the same pool were infective to control woodpeckers.
  • (13) Infection was achieved in all woodpeckers fed cystacanths at least 47 days old and the mean prepatent period was 35 days.
  • (14) We determined the prevalence of six genera of bacteria from a sample of 387 cloacal swabs from 364 passerines and woodpeckers.
  • (15) This brought on an unprecedented wave of extinctions or near misses; the Carolina parakeet and the Rocky Mountain locust were driven to extinction and the Pronghorn antelope, the bison, black-footed ferret, Eskimo curlew, ivory-billed woodpecker, heath hen and others were brought to the brink.
  • (16) A preliminary anatomical study of the woodpecker's head suggests that it may be fruitful to explore impact protective systems which are radically different from those in common use.
  • (17) Which is exactly what we did on her last day, watching woodpeckers in the copse in front of her cottage, and remembering our adventures together; up to an hour before she died, we were planning a new one, and she was excited that it might include a recce to the Arctic Circle to view the aurora borealis .
  • (18) Filled with long-tailed tits or goldfinches or cackling green woodpeckers, many are as thick as houses, a coalition of holly, rowan, hazel, dogwood and bramble, with oaks permitted to grow into grand trees.
  • (19) My mother made a new cover for our battered sofa from his Woodpecker fabric and my sisters wore smock-like dresses made from his textiles.
  • (20) The woodpecker is an experiment in Nature, a model for the investigation of mechanisms of basic importance for head injury and its prevention.

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