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单词 sea-mall
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sea-malln.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: sea-maw n.
Etymology: Variant of sea-maw n. (compare forms at maw n.3). Compare earlier seamew n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsea-mall.
= seamew n.The form seamell is perhaps spurious, invented as a conjectural emendation of scamels in Shakespeare Tempest ii. ii. 176.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Larus (gull) > larus canus (common gull)
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1676 F. Willughby & J. Ray Ornithologiæ 262 Larus cinereus minor. The common Sea-Mall.
1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 448 The lesser Gull, or Sea-mall... The deep, grey, Sea-mall.
1778 G. Steevens Note on Tempest in S. Johnson & G. Steevens Plays of Shakspeare (rev. ed.) I. 63 Theobald had very reasonably proposed to read sea-malls, or sea-mells.
1894 A. Newton Dict. Birds Sea-mall, -mel, or -mew have been used indifferently for Gulls.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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