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单词 gaulin
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gaulinn.

Brit. /ˈɡɔːlɪn/, U.S. /ˈɡɔlən/, /ˈɡɑlən/, Caribbean English /ˈɡɔːlɪn/, /ˈɡaːlɪn/
Forms: 1700s gaulding, 1800s gaulin, 1800s gawling.
Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item; perhaps partly modelled on a Spanish lexical item. Etymon: gawlin n.
Etymology: Probably an extended use of gawlin n., denoting a bird of uncertain identity (perhaps the brent goose), although some forms may be influenced by association with Spanish gallina hen (see gallinazo n.); compare Spanish gallinazo gallinazo n., which is also applied to one of the birds named gaulin in Jamaica.
Jamaica.
A kind of egret.
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Ciconiiformes (storks, etc.) > [noun] > family Ardeidae (herons and bitterns) > member of genus Egretta (miscellaneous)
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a1705 J. Ray Synopsis Avium & Piscium (1713) i. 189 Ardea alba major nostras. The largest White Gaulding..Ardea cœruleonigra. The Black or Blew Gaulding.
1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 314 The largest white Gaulding.
1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 315 The Black Gaulding, or blue Gaulding.
1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 70 The Dark-coloured Gaulding..The whole bird is of the Crane kind and generally found feeding upon worms about the edges of ponds.
1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 70 The Grey Gaulding. This bird is seldom seen in this island.
1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. iii. 478 The grey crested Gaulding.
1847 P. H. Gosse & R. Hill Birds of Jamaica 335 I have observed in June, the white forms of many Gaulins studding the verdant meadows.
1870 Good Words June 381 A slate-blue heron, or gawling, as they call him here, rose lazily off a dead bough.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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