| 单词 | peewit gull |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspeewit gull peewit gull n. see sense 2. peewit gull 2. British. More fully peewit gull. The black-headed gull, Larus ridibundus. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Larus (gull) > larus ridibundus (black-headed gull) pickmawa1525 peewit1678 pickmire1678 red-legged gull1785 black cap1802 pirr1818 red-leg1831 lapwing-gull1844 red-legged mew1862 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 347 The Pewit or Black-cap, called in some places, The Sea-Crow and Mire-Crow: Larus cinereus. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. vii. 231 The Larus cinereus..call'd the black-Cap..or..the Pewit. 1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 143 The Pewit Gull... The notes of these gulls distinguish them from any others; being like a hoarse laugh. c1792 Encycl. Brit. IX. 579/1 The ridibundus, pewit, or black-head gull. 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 209 Puit or Peewit gull. 1894 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. III 710 Pewit, anciently Puet, the ordinary name of what is called in books the Black-headed Gull, Larus ridibundus, in the inland localities affected by it for breeding. 2003 Herald Express (Torquay) (Nexis) 3 Jan. 9 In more poetic ages they [sc. black-headed gulls] were known as Laughing Gulls and Peewit Gulls—a name they earned from their habit of bullying lapwings into surrendering food. < as lemmas |
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