单词 | mackerel cock |
释义 | > as lemmasmackerel cock mackerel cock n. British regional and Irish English the Manx shearwater, a bird of Atlantic and Mediterranean waters, Puffinus puffinus, which is brownish black with white underparts. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Procellariidae (petrel) > member of genus Puffinus (shearwater) > puffinus anglorum (Manx shearwater) puffin1337 pilwater1603 lyre1654 shearwaterc1671 scrabe1676 Manx puffin1678 mackerel cock1772 Manx shearwater1835 scraber1852 1772 J. Rutty Ess. Nat. Hist. Dublin I. 329 The Mackarel-Cock..a bird of passage coming to us in June and July, about the time of the Mackarels... It is commonly as big as a Cormorant . 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 212 Manx Shearwater... Also called Mackerel cock. 1950 A. W. Boyd Coward's Birds Brit. Isles (rev. ed.) 2nd Ser. 110 The light-keepers told me that the ‘Mackerel Cocks’ were most clamorous after rain. < as lemmas |
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