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单词 tarrock
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tarrockn.

/ˈtarək/
Forms: Also torrock, Scottish tirracke, tirrick.
Etymology: Of uncertain origin; the ending -ock is apparently diminutive, as in puttock, etc.
A name applied locally to various sea-birds: in the Shetland Islands, to the Arctic Tern; elsewhere to the Kittiwake, to the young of the Common Gull, and to the Common Guillemot.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Larus (gull) > larus canus (common gull)
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Larus (gull) > larus tridactylus (kittiwake)
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Sterna (tern) > sterna hirundo (common tern)
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1674 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 94 The Tarrock: Cornub: Larus cinereus Bellonii.
1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 346 Bellonius his ash-coloured Gull, called in Cornwal, Tarrock.
1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 449 The Larus, with a white head, with a spot of black on each side..; Our common people in Cornwall call it the Torrock.
1768 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) II. ii. 424 Linnæus..makes this species [sc. winter mew] synonymous with the Larus tridactylus or Tarrock.
1771 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1769 36 Kittiwakes, or Tarrocks.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 79 It is..the tarrock, and the terne, that venture to these dreadful retreats, and claim an undisturbed possession.
1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. V. 189 Redshanks, herons, tirricks.
1821 W. Scott Pirate I. x. 227 The querulous cry of the tirracke and kittiewake.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Tirracke, the Tarrock.
1833 J. Rennie Montagu's Ornithol. Dict. (new ed.) 505 Tarrock, a name for the Gull in its immature plumage.
1833 J. Rennie Montagu's Ornithol. Dict. (new ed.) 508 Common Tern, Sterna hirundo. Provincial... Tarrock, or Tarret.
1880 J. Skelton Crookit Meg iv. 48 I promised to get a tarrock's wing for Eppie.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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