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单词 kittiwake gull
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kittiwake gull
Any seagull of the genus Rissa; esp. (and primarily) R. tridactyla, the common species of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, a small gull having generally white plumage with black markings on the primaries, very long wings, and the hind toe very short or rudimentary. Also kittiwake gull.
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1661 Ray Three Itin. ii, in Lankester Mem. John Ray (1846) 155 The other birds which nestle in the Basse are these; the scout,..the cattiwake.
1684 R. Sibbald Scotl. Illustr. ii. iii. 20 Avis Kittiwake, ex Larorum genere, egregii saporis.
1698 in Warrender Marchmont (1894) 184 Kittie warks, 12..Rost rabets 6.
1744 T. Preston in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 43 61 Many Sorts of Wild fowl;..the Dunter Goose,..Solan-Goose,..Kittiwaiks..etc.
1748 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 4) IV. 317 In the Mouth of the River Forth lie several Islands..[which abound] with Fowl, particularly those called..Kittawaax..about the Size of a Dove.
1877 C. W. Thomson Voy. ‘Challenger’ I. iii. 199 A few kittiwakes followed the ship for the first days after we left Teneriffe.
1881 R. Buchanan God & Man II. 263 Innumerable terns and kittiwake gulls were hovering over the vessel.
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