英语词汇“arctic tern”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	arctic tern
释义	> as lemmas Arctic tern Arctic tern n. the tern Sterna paradisaea, which breeds on the northern coasts of Eurasia and North America and is noted for its long migration to the Antarctic and back. ΚΠ 1824 Suppl. App. Capt. Parry's Voy. Discov. North-west Passage p. ccii. (heading) Sterna Arctica. Arctic Tern. 1842 W. MacGillivray Man. Brit. Ornithol. II. 232 The Arctic Tern..may easily be distinguished from the Common Tern, even on wing, as well as by its cry. 1973 M. Herbert Snow People iv. 24 A few Arctic Terns..hovered balletically before swooping in a graceful arc to snatch some morsel from the sea. 2003 Canad. Geographic Mar. 44/1 Cheeky Arctic terns hover over the kayak or gang up on bat-like parasitic jaegers. extracted from Arcticadj.n. arctic tern Of the species, which are widely diffused from Arctic to extreme southern coasts, the British Museum Catalogue reckons more than 50, of which 33 are placed in the genus Sterna, and about 18 distributed in ten other genera. Of these, six are considered indigenous to the British coasts, and many more to those of North America. The common tern of Britain and North America is Sterna hirundo (or fluviatilis); the sandwich tern, the largest British species, now scarce, is S. cantiaca; the arctic tern, S. macrura; the roseate tern, S. dougalli; the little tern, S. minuta; the black tern, Hydrochelidon (formerly Sterna) nigra.extracted from ternn.¹ < as lemmas
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