Meaning of granary tree | Babel Free

Definitions

A tree used by acorn woodpeckers to store acorns.

Examples

“If the acorn is to be stored rather than eaten, the bird brings it to the granary tree and drives it into a vacant storage hole.”

“One granary tree can have⟳ up to 50,000 holes in it, each holding a single acorn. In parts of its range the acorn woodpecker does not construct a granary tree, but instead stores acorns in natural holes and cracks in bark.”

“These three birds are at a “granary tree” or “nut pole,” where there are many stored acorns, but no grain, despite the name⟳.”

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