单词 | mutton bird |
释义 | mutton bird in American Englishnoun any of several long-winged seabirds, often used as food, esp Puffinus tenuirostris (short-tailed shearwater) of Australia and Puffinus griseus (sooty shearwater), which breeds in the Southern Hemisphere and winters in the Northern Hemisphere Also: mutton-bird Word origin [1840–50]Examples of 'mutton bird' in a sentence |
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