Bird-lime Sentence Examples

bird-lime

  • This Strophanthus is not remarkable for its rubber - which is mere bird lime - but for the powerful poison of its seeds, often used for poisoning arrows, but of late much in use as a drug for treating diseases of the heart.

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  • He catches them by means of a rod smeared with bird-lime, and then tying a fine string under their wings, he flies them at its end.

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  • In Assam they are sometimes speared from boats, and in the Himalayas they are said to be ensnared by bird-lime.

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