| 单词 | fairy prion |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfairy prion fairy prion n. a small prion, Pachyptila turtur, with a short and narrow bill, which is widespread in the seas around southern Australia and New Zealand, and in subantarctic waters. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Procellariidae (petrel) > member of genus Pachyptila (prion) whale-bird1771 prion1848 fairy prion1885 1885 Papers & Proc. Royal Soc. Tasmania 1884 244 Prion ariel, Gould. Fairy Prion. 1930 W. R. B. Oliver N.Z. Birds 114 Fairy Prion... Pachyptila turtur. The Fairy Prion was first discovered in Bass Strait. 1966 G. Durrell Two in Bush ii. 79 Then the Fairy Prions—delicate little swallow-like petrels—started to arrive. 2004 T. Wheeler Falklands & S. Georgia 54 The fairy prion (Pachyptila turtur ) and thin-billed prion (Pachyptila belcheri ) have narrow bills. < as lemmas |
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