| 单词 | winter gull |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswinter gull winter gull n. any gull which appears in winter in a particular locality; esp. the common gull ( Larus canus) and the black-headed gull ( L. ridibundus) in Britain (obsolete), and the herring gull ( L. smithsonianus) in the United States; cf. winter mew n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Larus (gull) > appearing in winter calmewec1430 colmow?a1500 winter mew1678 winter gull1776 1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) II. iii. Pl. LXXXVI (caption) Winter Gull. 1804 T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds II. 221 (heading) Winter Gull. Winter Mew, or Coddy Moddy. 1844 J. P. Giraud Birds Long Island 357 Larus argentatus—Brun. Herring or Silvery Gull... Winter dress, the head and neck all round mottled and streaked with grayish-brown... In this plumage it is the ‘Gray Winter Gull’ of our gunners. 1875 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. 119/3 Larus canus, the common gull; and L. hybernicus, the winter gull; the species which visit fresh ploughed land. 1884 J. W. Collins Notes Habits & Methods Capture Sea Birds in Rep. Commissioner 1882 (U.S. Comm. Fish & Fisheries) 330 Of all the birds which visit the fishing-banks the kittiwake gull (‘winter gull’, ‘pinyole’, etc., of the fishermen) is beyond question the most abundant. 2006 R. M. Knutson Flattened Fauna v. 48 The herring gull is found across the northern U.S. in the summer, and farther south along the coasts (where it is called the winter gull) in the colder months. < as lemmas |
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