单词 | great blackback |
释义 | > as lemmasgreat blackback 1. A black-backed gull; spec. (more fully great blackback, greater blackback) the great black-backed gull, Larus marinus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Larus (gull) > larus marinus (blackback) swartbacka1525 gull-mawc1550 cob1574 blackback1676 wagel1676 saddleback1770 blackback gull1783 swabie1821 parson gull1849 minister1925 1676 J. Sterpin tr. L. J. Debes Færoœ ii. 141 The Swarth bag [Dan. svartbagen] is a great Bird like a Kite, it is white all over, but the back, where it is black, and therefore is called a Black back. 1809 A. Edmondston View Zetland Islands II. xiv. §4. 260 They are rather more numerous than the black backs. 1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! xxxii The great black-backs laughed querulous defiance at the intruders. 1858 Fraser's Mag. May 592/1 The legs of the Greater Black-back are paler. 1921 S. Gordon Wanderings of Naturalist iv. 18 Altogether I saw three pairs of greater black backs, two of which had eggs. 1986 I. Wedde Symmes Hole (1988) 81 They wouldn't even find you, you'd be gone ‘without trace’, the blackbacks would peck out your eyes at first light. 2006 A. J. Lippson & R. L. Lippson Life in Chesapeake Bay (ed. 3) iv. 118/1 The call of a great black-back is similar to the herring gull's. < as lemmas |
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