| 单词 | rosy gull |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrosy gull rosy gull n. now historical (frequently with distinguishing word) Ross's gull, Rhodostethia rosea.In quot. 1831: Franklin's gull, Larus pipixcan. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Larus (gull) > larus rosea (Ross's gull) Ross's gull1828 rosy gull1829 1829 Edinb. Lit. Jrnl. 25 July 100/1 There must be something less gregarious, and more solitary, in the habits of that particular species called the rosy gull. 1831 Wilson's Amer. Ornith. IV. 353 Larus Franklinii, Franklin's Rosey Gull. 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 316 Wedgetailed, or Ross' Rosy Gull,..white, rosy-tinted. 1907 Condor 9 179 (note) Mr. Burturlin..always speaks of Rhodostethia rosea as Rosy Gull; which I think a most appropriate name. 2005 T. Soper Arctic (ed. 2) 65 The bird was first described as the ‘collared gull’ by virtue of the necklace, then ‘Ross's rosy gull’ because the great seaman James Clark Ross shot the first recorded specimen. < as lemmas |
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