- present tense form of spike (3rd person singular).
spikes
Example Sentences
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According to a paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science this month, lions, polar bears, scaly-tailed possums and American pikas also fluoresce.
From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2023
Some of the same genes have also changed in yaks, pikas, ground tits, and other species that live at high elevations, albeit in different ways, he and his colleagues reported later.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 11, 2022
At the time, Washington had a few native lagomorphs — pikas in the mountains, pygmy rabbits in the sagebrush — but no S. floridanus.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 29, 2022
She thinks of pikas and Cascades frogs that thrive in cooler climates and great gray owls that depend on “old-growth forests” threatened by wildfires.
From Washington Post • Jul. 17, 2021
It was unusual to see so many pikas at once, but that shouldn’t have frightened him.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
