| 单词 | dung hunter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdung hunter dung hunter n. now historical and rare any of various seabirds formerly thought to feed on the dung of other seabirds, esp. the Arctic skua or parasitic jaeger, Stercorarius parasiticus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > genus Stercorarius (skuas or jaegers) > stercorarius skua (skua) plunger1655 dung bird1677 skua1678 dung hunter1694 skua-gull1768 dirty allan1771 bonxiea1777 dung teaser1841 weese allan1849 sea-hawk1852 turd-bird1864 shoemaker1867 dirt-bird1885 1694 tr. F. Martens Voy. Spitzbergen 87 (heading) in Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. Of the Struntjager (or Dung-hunter). 1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 141 This species [of Gull] is called by some the Dung hunter. 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 210 Richardson's Skua.., [called] from the vulgar opinion that the gulls are muting, when, in reality, they are only disgorging fish newly caught..Dung bird or Dung hunter. 2014 J. Sandrock & J. C. Prior Sci. Nomencl. Birds Upper Midwest 138 Stercorarius..parasiticus... Common name: Parasitic Jaeger. Other names: arctic skua, dung hunter, man-o'-war. < as lemmas |
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