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单词 sea-bird
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sea-birdn.

Forms: see bird n. and bird n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: sea n., bird n.
Etymology: < sea n. + bird n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsea-bird.
A bird frequenting the sea, or the land near the sea. Also attributive.
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1589 J. Rider Bibliotheca Scholastica 1704 A Seabirde great and ravenous, charadrius.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 259 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors We..saw infinite multitudes of little Sea-birds.
1766 T. Smollett Trav. France & Italy I. xix. 301 All sea-birds are allowed by the church of Rome to be eaten on meagre days, as a kind of fish.
1865 Ld. Tennyson Captain 71 The lonely seabird crosses With one waft of the wing.
1898 R. Kearton Wild Life at Home 100 The Orkney and Shetland Islands are rich in sea-bird life.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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