单词 | sea-bird |
释义 | sea-birdn. A bird frequenting the sea, or the land near the sea. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > defined by habitat > [noun] > aquatic or swimming bird > marine sea-fowl1340 sea-bird1589 guano1697 seed bird1791 ocean fowl1864 sea-runner1872 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). < n.1589 |
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