| 单词 | antarctic petrel |
| 释义 | > as lemmasAntarctic petrel Antarctic petrel n. a petrel with white and dark brown plumage, Thalassoica antarctica, which breeds in Antarctica and on some adjacent islands. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Procellariidae (petrel) > member of genus Procellaria > other types petrel1602 Antarctic petrel1777 grey petrel1782 sea-nymph1875 whale-bird1875 pediunker1910 1777 G. Forster Voy. round World I. 108 We had seen a new species of petrel, of a brown colour, with a white belly and rump, and a large white spot on the wings, which we now named the antarctic petrel, as we saw great flights of twenty or thirty of them hereabouts. 1815 J. H. Tuckey Maritime Geogr. I. 494 Antarctic petrel, differs from the pintado only in colour. 1905 E. A. Wilson in Geogr. Jrnl. 25 395 The Antarctic petrel migrates northward in the winter, and frequents the ice within the Antarctic circle in the summer, though where it breeds is still a mystery. 1990 F. Roots in C. Mungall & D. J. McLaren Planet under Stress (1991) 121 The Antarctic petrel nests on tiny rock nunataks in the inland ice. < as lemmas |
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