«BIRD-CATCHING TREE» এর সঙ্গে সম্পর্কিত ইংরেজী বই
নিম্নলিখিত গ্রন্থপঞ্জী নির্বাচনে
bird-catching tree শব্দটির ব্যবহার খুঁজুন। ইংরেজী সাহিত্যে
bird-catching tree শব্দের ব্যবহারের প্রসঙ্গ সম্পর্কিত বই এবং তার থেকে সংক্ষিপ্তসার।
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The Material Culture of Tuvalu
At sunset the hunters go in twos and threes into the bush to a bird-catching tree (
te/a/Na.). This is usually an easily climbable pan- danus palm, the top of which
has been cut horizontally in a special manner. Anyone may catch birds in the
bush.
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New Zealand Māori Word Encyclopedia
... Heimerliodendron: B. brunonianum, the bird-catching tree parapara /
puhziureroa / pfiwhfiureroa Boheria (lacebark) : H. angustifolia, small-leaved
variety houhi puruhi / hungm: B. glahrata wimivvhaii/luiiat/lxxiliur/lxxihi/lxln/liéllere
/v\/lruiwhi; ...
3
The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, ...
One of the most extreme examples of a hitchhiker fruit is the Sumatran bird-
catching tree. Its fruits are covered with tiny barbed hooks and a sticky gum that
glues itself to birds' feathers. Certain birds carry the fruit to other islands; less
fortunate ...
That trait is not confined to this species; in Malaysia there is another called the “
bird- catching tree” (Dalziel 1937). These armed climbers have been known to
Europeans since at least the late 1690s, when they were mentioned by Leonard
...
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Journal of the Polynesian Society
The sister's name Puhaureroa is the name of a tree (Heimerliodendron
brunonianum, Williams 1971:304), also called parapara, "the bird-catching tree" (
Williams 1971:262). According to Best (1977:61), the puhaaureroa is the tree
often ...
This is the tree often termed 'the bird-catching tree,' of which we read in
Cheeseman's Flora that : "The fruits are so excessively viscid that small birds,
such as the white-eye (Zosterops) and fan-tail (Rhipidura), are often caught and
glued down ...
Dominion Museum (N.Z.),
1942
Two Interesting New Zealand Species Bird'Catching Tree and the Ngaio By
Rewa Glenn The New Zealand Gardener American Horticulturists to Visit New.
Zealand. A REMARKABLE tree growing in Mr. Kohere's reserve at East Cape is
the ...
Other trees with big leaves were karaka and parapara (bird-catching tree),
growing together with the Three Kings Pittosporum and flowering tawapou and,
lastly, giving a delicious fragrance to the whole grove, several flower- decked
trees of ...
Evan Graham Turbott,
1947
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New national Australian encyclopaedia
Pop 1,040. BIRD, Nancy. (See WALTON, Nancy de Low) BIRD-CATCHING
SPIDER (Nephila). Giant spider found throughout Aust; spins strong webs in
which to catch large insects. BIRD-CATCHING TREE (Heimerlio- dendron
brunonianum) .
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The Concise Encyclopaedia of Australia: Vol.1
(See golden ORB WEAVER) BIRD-CATCHING TREE (Pisonia). A small, soft-
wooded and broad-leafed tree, found mainly on the coast of Qld. northern NSW,
and some of the low Barrier Reef islands. Small birds and insects are often
unable to ...