More fully man-of-war bird, †man-of-war hawk. Any of various seabirds, esp. predatory ones which attack other seabirds in order to steal their food…
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| 释义 | the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > genus Stercorarius (skuas or jaegers) > member of (5) man-of-war hawk1657 More fully man-of-war bird, †man-of-war hawk. Any of various seabirds, esp. predatory ones which attack other seabirds in order to steal their food… sea-eagle1668 An eagle of the genus Haliaëtus, esp. the White-tailed Eagle, H. albicilla, which older writers confounded with the Osprey or so-called Fishing… sea-hen1676 A local name for the common guillemot, Uria troile, and the great skua, Stercorarius catarrhactes. skua1678 A predatory gull belonging to the genus Stercorarius, esp. the largest European species, S. catarrhactes, which breeds in Shetland, the Færöes… skua-gull1768 attributive in skua-gull. |
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