| 单词 | greater black-backed gull |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreater black-backed gull black-backed gull n. any of several gulls having black or dark backs; (a) (more fully great black-backed gull, greater black-backed gull) the large Larus marinus, of the North Atlantic; (b) (more fully Southern black-backed gull) the kelp gull, L. dominicanus, of the southern hemisphere; (c) (more fully lesser black-backed gull) L. fuscus, of European coasts.The lesser black-backed gull forms a ring species with the herring gull, L. argentatus. ΚΠ 1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) II. ii. 528 Black backed Gull... Larus marinus. 1831 Mag. Nat. Hist. 4 198 The nest of the black-backed herrier and lesser blackbacked gulls very nearly resemble each other. 1837 Analyst 6 129 They are the Hawks among the feathered inhabitants of the ocean, fearlessly attacking even the Greater Blackbacked Gull. 1843 W. Jardine Nat. Hist. Birds Great Brit. & Ireland (Naturalist's Libr.: Ornithol. XIV) IV. 299 Larus marinus, Linn... Great Black-backed Gull of British authors. 1873 W. L. Buller Hist. Birds N.Z. 270 Larus dominicanus. (Southern Black-backed Gull). 1904 N.Z. Illustr. Mag. Mar. 482 The Karoro, or Black-backed Gull, in the wild and dreary solitudes of the Ocean Beach. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 551 The better-known great black-backed gull, a predatory giant over two feet in length. 1973 M. Philip Caravan Caravel vii. 48 ‘What are those big ones flying around?’ asked Tessa ‘White underneath, with black wings?’ ‘They're Southern Black-backed gulls.’ 1992 Stornoway Gaz. 18 Apr. 6/4 I saw my first Lesser Black-backed Gulls of the year on Loch Bacavat, Borve. 2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 16 June viii. 12/2 A brilliant sand..patrolled by wailing black-backed gulls. < as lemmas |
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