PICUS

(Lat.), n. m. Pik(pek)'u8s(u4s). A genus of woodpeckers, [a, 35.] P. virid is. Ger., Griinspeclit. The green woodpecker. The dried pulverized bones, o a pic i, were formerly used as a diuretic. [B, 180 (a, 35).] [s. 268]