European green woodpecker though the latter is smaller and more slender with narrower wings and longer tail. The closely related, very similar Levaillant's woodpecker occurs only in north-west Africa. The European green woodpecker is a member of the order Piciformes, the woodpecker family Picidae and the genus Picus. It was first described by Linnaeus in 1758. The scientific name is derived from the Greek "pikos", meaning 'woodpecker', and Latin "viridis", 'green'. There are four subspecies, with subtle and mostly clinal differences between them. In a recent study based on mitochondrial DNA analysis of subspecies by Perktaş, Barrowclough and Groth, it has been proposed
An English Expositor and words that had become obsolete, but also terms associated with science and philosophy. It contained twice as many entries as its sole predecessor, Cawdrey's "A Table Alphabeticall", from which it borrowed heavily. John Bullokar lived only to see the second edition of his book, but at least sixteen more editions and revisions appeared over the next 150 years, including "An English Expositor, or, Compleat Dictionary" (1698), and "The English Expositor Improv'd" (1719). An English Expositor An English Expositor: teaching the interpretation of the hardest words used in our language, with sundry explications, descriptions and discourses is a dictionary of