| 单词 | boatswain bird |
| 释义 | > as lemmasboatswain bird boatswain bird n. now rare any of various, chiefly long-tailed, seabirds; esp. (a) the Arctic skua or parasitic jaeger, Stercorarius parasiticus (= sense 3a); (b) a tropicbird (genus Phaethon) (= sense 3b).In quot. 1813: an unidentified tern (family Sternidae).In quot. 1822: the Ascension frigate bird, Fregata aquila, which breeds on Boatswain Bird Island, adjacent to Ascension Island. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Pelecaniformes > [noun] > member of family Phaethontidae (tropic bird) tropicbird1624 boatswain1815 marlinspike1858 long-tail1859 star-tail1862 boatswain bird1867 bosun bird1888 wig-tail1888 bosun1899 1813 G. Montagu Suppl. Ornithol. Dict. at Boatswain There appears to be a bird which is observed to breed on the Black-rock, on the coast of France, belonging either to the Gull, or Tern genus, which the British sailors have denominated Boatswain-bird. 1822 M. Graham Jrnl. 2 Mar. in Captain's Wife (1993) 63 They had brought down a boatswain bird, a sort of pelican (Pelicanus Lencocephalus) [read: Pelecanus leucocephalus], which they proposed to stuff. 1850 Eskimaux & Eng. Vocab. 13 Boatswain (bird). 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 113 Boatswain-bird, Phaeton æthereus, a tropical bird, so called from its sort of whistle. It is distinguished by two long feathers in the tail, called the marling-spike. 1911 D. M. Liondsay Voy. Arctic in Whaler Aurora 113 I took my gun and went out for a stroll, killing..a Richardson's skua. These latter were called, by the sailors, boatswain birds, because of the long feathers in the tail. 1960 J. Bond Birds W. Indies 22 White-tailed Tropicbird... Local names:..Boatswain Bird; Long-tail. < as lemmas |
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