释义 |
‖ Sula|ˈsjuːlə| [mod.L. (Willughby, 1676), a. ON. sūla.] Applied by Hoier and others to a supposed variety of sea-fowl; in modern Ornith. a genus of gannets (family Sulidæ).
1678Ray Willughby's Ornith. iii. 331 The Sula of Hoier,..near of kin to, if not the same with the Soland-goose. 1688Holme Armoury ii. xii. 262 The Sula is like the Soland Goose for Bodily shape. 1766Pennant Brit. Zool. 162. |