| 单词 | wideawake tern |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswideawake tern 1. The sooty tern, Onychoprion fuscatus, which forms large breeding colonies on tropical coasts and islands and is characterized by its loud, piercing call. Also more fully wideawake tern. Cf. wide awake fair n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Sterna (tern) > sterna fuscata (sooty tern) sooty tern1785 wide awake1831 1831 P. Bays Narr. Wreck Minerva 77 We saw about half a hundred young birds, called fishermen, (by us, wide-awakes, from the noise they made, so nearly corresponding to the sound of the words, wide awake). 1877 R. L. Price Two Americas iv. 57 Sea-gulls and wide-awakes hovered in hundreds over the water. 1881 Standard 12 Aug. 5/2 It [sc. Ascension] nurtures nothing save turtle and wideawakes. 1909 D. Lindsay & A. L. Holtze Territoria 24 Kangaroo rats, wideawakes, and mountain devils. 1983 Behaviour 87 93 Wideawake terns (Sterna fuscata)..are unable to spend long periods in the water without becoming ‘waterlogged’. 2011 N. Amer. Wildlife 216/2 In the Atlantic, another population of sooty tern, the wideawakes of Ascension Island, nest every 7–9½ months. < as lemmas |
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