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单词 pediunker
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pediunkern.

Brit. /ˌpɛdɪˈʌŋkə/, U.S. /ˌpɛdiˈəŋkər/
Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown; perhaps imitative. Originally used in Tristan da Cunha, one of the islands on which the bird breeds.
The grey petrel, Procellaria cinerea, of southern oceans.
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the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Procellariidae (petrel) > member of genus Procellaria > other types
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Antarctic petrel1777
grey petrel1782
sea-nymph1875
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pediunker1910
1910 K. M. Barrow Three Years in Tristan da Cunha 275 The ‘Pediunker’ lays in May and June; it is like a petrel.
1923 A. H. Macklin in F. Wild Shackleton's Last Voy. xii. 253 Gordon Glass had with him his dog, which occasionally discovered a ‘pediunker’, a species of seabird which frequents the island [sc. Tristan da Cunha].
1952 J. Fisher Fulmar xvi. 381 Barnacles on birds are rare, though they have been found in the tail-feathers of the sub-antarctic Adamastor cinereus, the pediunker or grey petrel.
1992 J. del Hoyo et al. Handbk. Birds of World I. 230/1 Several other species have striking local names: the ‘Shoemaker’ for the White-chinned Petrel; the ‘Pediunker’ for the Grey Petrel; and the ‘Moaning Bird’ for the Wedge-tailed Shearwater.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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