Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the beak hard and white as ivory: as, the ivory-billed woodpeckers of the genus Campophilus.

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Examples

  • After watching that video I'm glad woodpeckers (except for those giant pileated woodpeckers and the maybe-present-maybe-extinct ivory-billed) are relatively wee little birds.

    Uncategorized Blog Posts 2010

  • Like, "Speaker Boehner is playing ivory-billed woodpecker with Americans' hopes and dreams" or something?

    COLBUFFPOST HILL - Boehner 0, HuffPost Hill 1 Eliot Nelson 2011

  • The mikko descended wooden stairs from his steep-roofed palace, its ridgepole adorned with sculptures of ivory-billed woodpeckers.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • Wind is a manifestation of Power, sent across the world by the four giant ivory-billed woodpeckers that live at the edges of the earth.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • Wind is a manifestation of Power, sent across the world by the four giant ivory-billed woodpeckers that live at the edges of the earth.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • I realized too that I was more curious about who and what she was than about the rarest of birds which, in the case of the ivory-billed woodpecker, was probably extinct.

    Bringing Up Baby? Definitely Jonathan Rosen 2011

  • After watching that video I'm glad woodpeckers (except for those giant pileated woodpeckers and the maybe-present-maybe-extinct ivory-billed) are relatively wee little birds.

    Woodpecker vs. Snake 2010

  • A new UGA study suggests that ivory-billed woodpeckers could have persisted (in that it is possible as far as a population viability analysis goes).

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • I took off for a swamp in Louisiana to stake out what I hoped would prove to be an ivory-billed woodpecker.

    Bringing Up Baby? Definitely Jonathan Rosen 2011

  • The mikko descended wooden stairs from his steep-roofed palace, its ridgepole adorned with sculptures of ivory-billed woodpeckers.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

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