| 单词 | ranger seal |
| 释义 | > as lemmasranger seal b. Canadian. The common or harbour seal, Phoca vitulina, esp. one in its third year. Also ranger seal. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] > family Phocidae > genus phoca > phoca vitulina (common seal) sealc893 sea-calfa1387 sea-dog1598 soile1602 harbour seal1766 doter1770 ranger1771 1771 G. Cartwright Jrnl. 30 June (1792) I. 136 At one o'clock this morning the rinders returned..and informed me that they..had killed an otter, a porcupine, and a ranger. 1861 L. De Boilieu Recoll. Labrador Life 97 The next kind is a small and beautiful animal, called the Ranger, which remains on the coast all the winter. 1884 J. A. Allen in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 58 The Harbor Seal. Phoca vitulina. The young are there [i.e. in Newfoundland] also called ‘Rangers’. 1895 Outing 27 214/2 We..secured a fine young ranger seal. 1906 N. Duncan Adventures Billy Topsail 281 Archie and Billy came upon a family of four..two grown harps, a ‘jar’, which is a one year old seal, and a ranger, which is three years old and spotted like a leopard. 1958 A. W. Cameron Canad. Mammals 55 The dark markings are responsible for another name often applied to him—‘leopard seal’... In Newfoundland he bears the unusual name ‘ranger’. 1977 C. Brice-Bennett Our Footpr. are Everywhere 128 Ranger and grey seals migrate north to shallow areas near rocky shores... Old rangers (dotters) are especially clever at concealing themselves. < as lemmas |
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