| 单词 | ember-goose |
| 释义 | > as lemmasember-goose A kind of sea-fowl ( Colymbus Immer Linn. Pennant) frequenting the seas about Orkney, a variety of the Northern Diver or Loon ( Colymbus glacialis) to which the name is sometimes given. Chiefly in combination as ember-goose, ember-diver. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > [noun] > order Gariidae (divers and loons) > miscellaneous types of water witch1709 ember1744 the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > [noun] > order Gariidae (divers and loons) > gavia immer (common loon) loon1634 ember1744 1744 T. Preston in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 43 61/2 The Ember-Goose, which is said to hatch her Egg under her Wing. 1821 W. Scott Pirate II. viii. 184 Be mine the Imber-goose to play. 1831 J. Rennie Montagu's Ornithol. Dict. (ed. 2) 267 Imber-diver, a name for the Loon. 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds (E.D.S.) 213 Immer or Ember (Orkney), Imber Diver (Ireland), Ammer or Emmer goose (Aberdeen, E. Lothian). < as lemmas |
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