| 单词 | saddleback gull |
| 释义 | > as lemmassaddleback gull 5. A black-backed gull; esp. the great black-backed gull, Larus marinus. More fully saddleback gull. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Larus (gull) > larus marinus (blackback) swartbacka1525 gull-mawc1550 cob1574 blackback1676 wagel1676 saddleback1770 blackback gull1783 swabie1821 parson gull1849 minister1925 1770 G. Cartwright Jrnl. Resid. Coast Labrador 2 Oct. (1792) I. 40 They returned with three shellbirds and a saddleback. 1844 J. P. Giraud Birds Long Island 362 The Black-backed or ‘Saddle Back Gull’, is said to be an inhabitant of various parts of the northern shores of the American continent. 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 208 Greater black-backed gull... From its black back are derived the names..Saddleback (Norfolk; Lancashire). Greater saddleback (Ireland). 1932 J. Barbour Forty-eight Days Adrift vi. 61 A ‘saddleback’ coming towards us..was a good sign we were getting near land. 1973 Evening Telegram (St. John's, Newfoundland) 10 Oct. 3 They may say the Newfoundland people..will glutch down more than a saddleback gull without gagging. < as lemmas |
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