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Definition of "ivory-billed" [ivory-billed]

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

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

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