| 单词 | black scoter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblack scoter Any of several sea ducks constituting the genus Melanitta, breeding in the Arctic and wintering in north temperate regions, and typically having mainly black or dark brown plumage; esp. (more fully black scoter, common scoter) either M. nigra of northern Eurasia or M. americana of North America (sometimes regarded as conspecific). Also scoter duck.surf, velvet scoter: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > genus Melanitta > melanitta nigra (scoter) scoter1673 diver1678 whilka1705 sea-duck1753 whitewing1829 sleigh-bell duck1888 Siwash duck1911 1673 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 96 The Scoter: Anas niger. 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 366 The black Diver or Scoter: Anas niger minor [L. Anas niger, Eboracensibus Scoter, The black Diver]. 1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 153 Black Diver, or Scoter... This bird is allowed in the romish church to be eaten in Lent. 1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. Scoter... Provincial [name]. Black Duck. This species of Duck weighs about three pounds. 1845 Zoologist 3 1077 The scoter..has occurred twice in winter at some water in Basing parish. 1870 P. Gillmore tr. L. Figuier Reptiles & Birds 239 The writers of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance..had very vaguely described the Scoter Duck. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 552 A fourth group of sea birds, classified as regards flight, includes the marine ducks of all sorts, not forgetting scaups and scoters. 1972 M. J. Ursin Life in & around Salt Marshes 88 (caption) Common scoter. Oidemia nigra... The male common scoter is the only wholly black duck with a yellow-orange knob at the base of the bill. 2006 Bird Watching Aug. 111/2 Jenny Brown's Point: There were two Pomarine Skuas, nine Common Scoters and a Fulmar. < as lemmas |
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