单词 | medrick |
释义 | medrickn. U.S. regional (north-eastern). The common tern, Sterna hirundo. Also: the Arctic tern, S. paradisaea. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] medrick1832 the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Sterna (tern) > sterna hirundo (common tern) scray1668 spur1676 kirmew1694 pictarne1710 pirr maw1744 tarrock1774 pictarnie1784 medrick1832 shear-tail1885 1832 W. D. Williamson Hist. Maine I. 145 We suppose there are with us four [species]..4. the swallow-tail Gull, or Medrake. 1869 J. R. Lowell Pictures from Appledore 65 The medrick that makes you look overhead With short, sharp scream, as he sights his prey. 1925 E. H. Forbush Birds of Mass. I. 105 Common Tern... Sea swallow; medrick. 1925 E. H. Forbush Birds of Mass. I. 115 Arctic Tern... Medrick. 1956 Bull. Mass. Audubon Soc. 40 22 Common Tern... Medric gull (Maine); medrick (Maine, Mass.). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1832 |
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