| 单词 | doter seal |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdoter seal Also more fully doter seal. A (mature) harbour or common seal, Phoca vitulina. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] > family Phocidae > genus phoca > phoca vitulina (common seal) sealc893 sea-calfa1387 sea-dog1598 soile1602 harbour seal1766 doter1770 ranger1771 1770 G. Cartwright Jrnl. Resid. Coast Labrador 28 Aug. (1792) I. 30 After breakfast I went up the river again..and killed a doater with my rifle. a1820 J. Banks in A. M. Lysaght J. Banks in Newfoundland & Labrador (1971) xvii. 393 Mammalia Ferae... Incolis Harbour seal or Dotard. 1884 J. A. Allen in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I i. 58 The Harbor Seal. Phoca vitulina. The young are there [i.e. in Newfoundland] also called ‘Rangers’, and when two or three years old..receive the name of ‘Dotards’. 1911 H. G. Hutchinson Saga of ‘Sunbeam’ iv. 111 Those that we see in the Exploits River are what they locally call ‘dotter’ seals—I cannot be responsible for the spelling. 2012 F. Mowat Sea of Slaughter v. xvii. 418 Dotars still occupied, it sparsely, most of their original range when the twentieth century began. 2018 @reardonfr44 12 Jan. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) It's a harbour seal commonly called a doter. Rare in recent years but they are increasing. < as lemmas |
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