| 单词 | mew gull |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmew gull mew gull n. chiefly North American the common gull, Larus canus, which has a distinctive low mewing call (this name is now preferred to common gull in international works and lists of birds; the North American subspecies L. c. brachyrhynchus is also called short-billed gull); (formerly also) †the related ring-billed gull, L. delawarensis (obsolete). ΚΠ 1831 W. Swainson & J. Richardson Fauna Boreali-Americana II. 421 Larus zonorhynchus,..Ring-billed Mew-Gull. 1947 R. T. Peterson Field Guide Birds East of Rockies (ed. 2) 248 It is a question when this bird is seen whether it is the race of w. North America..or the Common, or Mew, Gull of Europe. 1962 M. E. Murie Two in Far North iv. iv. 372 Did you notice those gull—mew gulls, aren't they? 1994 Beautiful Brit. Columbia Fall 32/2 Birds are too many to count—mew gulls, Barrow's goldeneyes, mallards, common loons. < as lemmas |
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