Information om | Engelska ordet BIRD-LIME

Exempel på hur man kan använda BIRD-LIME i en mening

• The specific epithet is derived from the Latin word viscum meaning "bird-lime" with the ending -osus "abounding in", that is, "sticky" or "viscid".
• As introduced rabbits overgrazed the forest understory, these burrowing petrels became exposed to predators and vulnerable to entanglement in the sticky fruits of the bird-lime tree (Pisonia umbellifera).
• In his History of British Birds, Thomas Bewick says that blackbirds "readily suffer themselves to be caught with bird-lime, nooses and all sorts of snares".
• Frances Sharr notes that visca is the plural of viscum, "a mistletoe" or "bird-lime made from mistletoe berries".

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