noun नाम

Woodhewer meaning in konkani

लांकूड कापपी

  • Definition

    any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers

    दक्षिण अमेरिकेंतल्या आनी मध्य अमेरिकेंतल्या साबार सुकण्यांमदली खंयचीय सुकणीं, तांचो पांख वक्र आनी शेंपडेचीं पिसां ताठ जाल्लीं आसून तीं चडून वुडपेकरांभशेन खातात

  • Synonyms

    woodcreeper (लांकडाचो लांकडाचो प्राणी)

    tree creeper (झाडाचें लता)

    wood-creeper (लांकूड-लता)

noun नाम

Woodhewer meaning in konkani

लांकूड कापपी

  • Definitions

    1. Any of various passerines of subfamily Dendrocolaptinae, found in South America and Central America having a curved bill, stiff tail feathers, and which feed like woodpeckers; a woodcreeper.

    दक्षिण अमेरिकेंत आनी मध्य अमेरिकेंत मेळपी डेंड्रोकोलॅप्टिने ह्या उपकुळांतल्या वेगवेगळ्या पॅसेरिनांतली खंयचीय पॅसेरीन, तिचें पांखें वक्र, शेंपडेचीं पिसां ताठ आसतात आनी तीं वुडपेकरांभशेन खातात; एक लांकडाचो लांकडाचो प्राणी.

  • Examples:
    1. A loud series of descending whistles from the dark shadows was an ivory-billed woodhewer; and an explosive song in the undergrowth, a gray-breasted wood wren.

    2. If they differed, then the woodhewer feature was not a climbing adaptation. Difficulties with this method are illustrated by examination of the toe arrangement in the two groups, anisodactyl in the woodhewers and zygodactyl in the woodpeckers, but both are clearly adapted for climbing on vertical surfaces (Bock and de W. Miller, 1959).

    3. In the two American families of tyrant-birds and woodhewers, neither of which are songsters, there is in some of the closely-related species a remarkable family resemblance in their voices.

  • 2. Alternative form of wood-hewer

    लांकूड-कापपीचें पर्यायी रूप

  • Examples:
    1. Additional rations were also given to others at the point when the larder was made: to all the kitchen servants, one from the bakehouse, one from the brewhouse, two gardeners and the woodhewer – and one imagines they too must have been involved in some way in the preparations of the day.

    2. Construction-related occupations include blockmakers, potmakers, carpenters, woodhewers, masons, builders and hardware store owners; these activities are all carried out by men.

    3. The tree talked like a bird whose feathered weight Nested in him; and he with twisted tongue Could swear like the woodhewer whose dark face Was bright with sweat as he raised up and swung His naked arms with awkwardness and grace.

    4. Then, when he had been told all, at first he could not refrain himself and good wishes flowed from his lips as honey from the honey-comb; and he was indeed a right merry sight as, in the joy of his heart, he clapped his arms together across his breast, as a woodhewer may, to warm his hands in winter.