| 单词 | winter mew |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswinter mew winter mew n. now rare the common gull, Larus canus; cf. winter gull n. [Perhaps after post-classical Latin larus hibernus (1676 in the passage translated in quot. 1678), itself perhaps after German Wintermöwe (cited in the same work as Winder-Meb).] 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 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 350 The Winter-Mew [L. larus fuscus sive Hybernus], called in Cambridge-shire the Coddy-Moddy. 1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. p. xxv There is very little doubt the Winter Mew is no other than the young of the Common Gull. 1931 H. J. Massingham Birds of Seashore 183 Common Gull, Blue Maa or Winter Mew. The Common Gull is the rarest of our more familiar gulls. < as lemmas |
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