单词 | procellariine |
释义 | procellariineadj.n. Zoology. rare. A. adj. Relating to or designating a bird of the subfamily Procellariinae (family Procellariidae), which originally included all the Procellariiformes other than the albatrosses but was later restricted to a various genera of shearwaters and petrels. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [adjective] > belonging to Procellariidae procellariine1853 procellarian1864 tubinarial1882 tubinarine1895 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. 548 The great families of ducks, Auks, and procellarine birds..throng the seas and passages of the far north. 1907 Amer. Naturalist 41 114 I have never been able to get the skeletons of a great many species of procellarine birds. B. n. A bird of the subfamily Procellariinae. ΚΠ 1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. at Procellariinæ Procellariin(e, a. & n. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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