scopa

Scopa, the name of a card game, also meant broom.

Scopa is considered one of the national card games of Italy.

A scopa is awarded when a team manages to sweep the table of all cards.

Scopa is also played in countries like Libya and Somalia.

It is very similar to and probably descended from the Italian game Scopa.

In the process, pollen is brushed onto its scopa.

He is also the chairperson of Parliament's key public accounts (Scopa) committee.

Males are differentiated by having much less scopa, or hair, on their posterior tibiae.

Players get one point for each "scopa".

The specific epithet scopa means "broom" and refers to the long spines.

In this variation of the game, playing an Ace captures all cards currently on the table (and does not count as a scopa).

To keep track of all this, players traditionally turn one card in their collected cards face up, as it is done in scopa.

Clearing the table on the last play of the last hand of a round does not count as a scopa.

Bees with typical scopa cannot hold it.

The game of Scopone is based on Scopa.

The living species Caenohalictus eberhardorum has long hairs on the eyes and denser scopa.

As parasites, they lack a pollen-carrying scopa, and are often extraordinarily wasp-like in appearance.

There are many variations of scopa.

The name is an Italian noun meaning "broom", since taking a scopa means "to sweep" all the cards from the table.

The scopa (pollen-carrying apparatus under the abdomen) has reddish-brown hairs.

Females of these bees lack pollen collecting structures (the scopa) and do not construct their own nests.

In the female, hairs on the pollen carrying apparatus (scopa are black at the 6th sternal segment.

I saw her at Scopa Flow last year- God bless her, whoever she is.

Warriors´ goalie Dom Scopa earned his fifth shutout of the season with a 17-save performance.

The resemblance to wasps is enhanced by the absence of a scopa, which is atypical among bees.