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单词 guillemot
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guillemotn.

Brit. /ˈɡɪlᵻmɒt/, U.S. /ˈɡɪləˌmɑt/
Etymology: < French guillemot (1555 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), apparently a derivative of the name Guillaume = William. Compare guillem n. and willock n.
The name of several species of sea birds of the genus Alca or Uria; esp. Uria or Alca troile, the Common or Foolish Guillemot, and Uria grylle, the Black Guillemot.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Alcidae (auks) > [noun] > member of genus Uria (guillemot)
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1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 324 The Bird called..by those of Northumberland and Durham a Guillemot or Sea hen.
1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 138 The black Guillemot..[is] found on the Bass-isle in Scotland.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 80 The frequent chatter of the guillemot.
1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. I. 326 The Guillemots, like the Divers, inhabit the northern seas, are little fitted for moving on land, and seldom venture on shore except in breeding time.
1850 C. Kingsley N. Devon: Pt. III in Misc. (1860) II. 305 Some unseen guillemot would give a startled squeak.
1859 J. C. Atkinson Walks & Talks Two Schoolboys (1892) 328 Guillemots, or willocks, as they are locally [Yorkshire] called.
1883 W. Black in Harper's Mag. Dec. 70/1 The soft ‘Kurroo! kurroo!’ of the..guillemots.
1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. II 399 The common or Foolish..Guillemot of both sides of the Atlantic is replaced further northward by..the Alca arra or Alca bruennichi of ornithologists.
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