| 单词 | sea parrot |
| 释义 | > as lemmassea parrot 3. In full sea parrot. An auk; esp. the Atlantic puffin, Fratercula arctica. Cf. parrotbeak n. 2, parrotbill n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Alcidae (auks) > [noun] > fratercula arctica (puffin) scout1596 willock1606 bottlenose1620 parrot1664 sea-parrot1664 guldenhead1676 coulterneb1678 mullet1678 puffin1678 cockandy1684 sea-coulter1684 bowger1698 norie1701 tammie norie1701 popea1705 lunda1744 rock-bird1765 puffin-auk1768 tommy noddy1769 Tomnoddy1771 Tommya1777 Tomnorry1793 Tommy1828 sea-owl1842 1664 R. Hubert Catal. Rarities (1665) 9 A Sea-Parret or Coppernose of Greenland. 1694 Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. ii. 88 Amongst all web-footed Birds..this hath a peculiar Bill; and because it seem'd to those that gave him this Name to be like that of a Parret, therefore they called him also a Parret. 1790 Coll. Voy. round World VI. xviii. 2127 We saw numbers of sea parrots, and small ice-birds. 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 218 Black Guillemot... Also called: Puffixet (Farn Islands). Parrot (Roundstone, Co. Galway). 1906 Westm. Gaz. 19 May 4/2 The pinnacles and ledges of the precipitous cliffs are thronged with puffins—locally known as Lundy parrots. 1994 Denver Post 15 Dec. a29/1 But life hasn't always been easy for these quirky birds—sometimes called sea parrots—on the islands off the coast of Maine. < as lemmas |
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