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Definition of Ground roller
1. Noun. Madagascan roller with terrestrial and crepuscular habits that feeds on e.g. insects and worms.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ground Roller
Literary usage of Ground roller
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Antananarvio Annual and Madagascar Magazine (1892)
"These five species of ground roller are all handsome birds; the colouring of ...
Four of them are rather large birds, but the Scaly ground roller is small ..."
2. Patents for Inventions: Abridgments of Specifications Relating to Roads and by Great Britain Patent Office, Bennet Woodcroft (1868)
"This machine is also provided with a long lever having connected thereto a link,
at the lower end of which is a small "ground roller," this part of the ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"A,I:II„ Smith, Wealth of Nations, v. 2. ground-robin (ground'rob"in), я. Same as
die- wink. ground-roller (ground'rô'lér), n. ..."
4. Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education by National Society for the Study of Education (1908)
"There was a ground-roller. We rode on that awhile. There was a drill to make
holes for the seeds. There was a hay-rake and corn-cutter. ..."
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