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Definition of Oxpeckers
1. oxpecker [n] - See also: oxpecker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oxpeckers
Literary usage of Oxpeckers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"The birds that have a beneficial relation to stock, that is, as tick destroyers,
include the oxpeckers, one species of egret, one crow and one starling. ..."
2. Read & Understand, Nonfiction Grades 4-6 by Tekla N. White, Marilyn Evans, Evan-Moor Corporation (1999)
"Why do other animals come to the water holes to drink when they see the giraffes
are there? 4. How do oxpeckers help giraffes? How do the giraffes help the ..."
3. Spanish/English Read & Understand Nonfiction by Delana Heidrich, Kathleen Simpson, Ana Shirazi, Tekla White (2005)
"3. Why do other animals come to the water holes to drink when they see that the
giraffes are there? 4. How do oxpeckers help giraffes? ..."
4. Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and National by John Walter Osborne (1854)
"... green, blue, or crimson ; rose-winged parakeets, crimson nutcrackers,
scissor-bills, crane?, kingfishers, oxpeckers, guinea-fowls, and all the rest. ..."
5. Madagascar and France: With Some Account of the Island, Its People, Its by George A. Shaw (1885)
"As Mr. Wallace points out, the glossy starlings, the plantain-eaters, oxpeckers,
barbels, honey-guides, ..."
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