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Pilea

NOUN
  1. low-growing tropical perennials grown for their stingless foliage

How To Use Pilea In A Sentence

  • We went driving in the country on Sunday afternoons to look for some of the birds that were special to us: bluebirds, goldfinches, pileated and red-headed woodpeckers, and, most thrilling of all, painted buntings.
  • Mrs. Knap enjoyed birdwatching around her home and was especially fond of seeing cardinals in the snow and pileated woodpeckers. Eleanore K. Knap, college employee
  • He also found that as Pileated Woodpeckers fly away from the camera, their plumage is hard to distinguish from the Ivory-billed Woodpecker's. Archive 2007-03-01
  • Although their diet includes some acorns and beechnuts in the fall, pileated woodpeckers eat mostly ants, flying insects, grubs, and some seeds and fruits.
  • There are several large mammals of conservation significance in this ecoregion, including the endangered douc langur (Pygathrix nemaeus), red-cheeked gibbon (Hylobates gabriellae), and pileated gibbon (Hylobates pileatus) and potentially the tiger (Panthera tigris). Southern Vietnam lowland dry forests
  • 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. Woodpecker vs. Snake
  • Its final disposition was in a deep and lonely mountain tarn, which, according to later tradition, was on a mountain, still called Pilatus actually pileatus or 'cloud-capped', close to Lucerne. Archive 2005-03-20
  • In the neighbourhood of Rio Janeiro is found an insect-eating hawk (Harpagus diodon), and in the same district a bird-eating hawk (Accipiter pileatus) which closely resembles it. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays
  • A pilea is a tropical plant grown for its attractive foliage, which comes in several colorful varieties.
  • There are pileated woodpeckers in some woods I hunt. Are You A Birdwatcher?
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