card
noun
a usually rectangular piece of stiff paper, thin pasteboard, or plastic for various uses, as to write information on or printed as a means of identifying the holder.
carder
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a word derived from
card.
Example Sentences
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The brown-banded carder bee population has declined due to habitat loss as it requires open flower-rich grasslands where wildflowers thrive, says charity Buglife.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2022
Other rare insects that benefitted from the restoration project were the rugged oil beetle, rock-rose pot beetle, shrill carder bumblebee, downland villa and spotted beeflies.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2022
Among the bees whose range has shrunk are the formerly widespread red-shanked carder bee, whose extent fell by 42%, and the large shaggy bee, whose range fell 53%.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 26, 2019
All that did was move Odessa’s carder scene underground.
From BusinessWeek ● Mar. 13, 2014
STRANGER: I mean the work of the carder's art; for we cannot say that carding is weaving, or that the carder is a weaver.
From Statesman by Plato
