单词 | sea-eagle |
释义 | sea-eaglen. 1. An eagle of the genus Haliaëtus, esp. the White-tailed Eagle, H. albicilla, which older writers confounded with the Osprey or so-called Fishing Eagle. Also a name for the frigate-bird and the skua-gull.Pennant, Brit. Zool. (1766) 140, refers to Sibbald as having applied this name to the Skua. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > genus Stercorarius (skuas or jaegers) > member of man-of-war hawk1657 sea-eagle1668 sea-hen1676 skua1678 skua-gull1768 the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > eagles > genus Haliaetus > species albicilla (white-tailed eagle) erneOE pygarga1398 sea-eagle1668 white-tailed eagle1678 the world > animals > birds > order Pelecaniformes > [noun] > fregata aquila (frigate-bird) alcatras1584 man-of-war hawk1657 albatross1733 frigate-bird1738 sea-eagle1845 sea-hawk1852 hurricane-bird1879 son-of-the-sun1895 1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 62 Haliætus, Aquila marina, the Sea-Eagle. 1710 R. Sibbald Hist. Fife & Kinross ii. iii. 46 Cataractes, some call it the Sea-Eagle. 1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 61 The Golden Eagle..is found in..parts of Ireland, where it breeds in the loftiest cliffs. 1805 G. Barry Hist. Orkney iii. i. 313 The Sea Eagle (falco ossefragus, Lin. Syst.) is often seen. 1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna vii. xv The sea-eagle looked a fiend, who bore Thy mangled limbs for food! 1845 J. F. South in Encycl. Metrop. XXV. 408/2 The Frigate Bird, Man-of-War Bird, Sea Eagle, and Halcyon, by all of which names it [Tachypetes Aquilus] is known to sailors, is commonly found between the tropics. 1848 S. Maunder Treasury Nat. Hist. 599/2 Sea-eagle, the Erne: also the name sometimes given to the Osprey. 1875–84 R. B. Sharpe Layard's Birds S. Afr. 46 Haliaetus vocifer. African Sea-Eagle. 2. A species of Skate, Myliobates marginata; = eagle ray n. at eagle n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Hypotremata > [noun] > member of family Myliobatidae sea-hawk1655 sea-eagle1722 miller1836 eagle ray1841 batfish1850 myliobatid1859 eagle-skate1869 1722 J. Jones in tr. Oppian Halieuticks Catal. Fishes 227 Ἀετός..the Sea-Eagle, a kind of Ray. 1740 R. Brookes Art of Angling ii. lxvii. 188 The Sea-Eagle..has a Head almost like that of a Toad. 1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes II. 591. 1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. II. §584 The Myliobates receives its common name of Sea-eagle from having the pectoral fins of extreme breadth, so that it much resembles a bird of prey with its wings expanded. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1668 |
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