英语词汇“great auk”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

　

单词	great auk
释义	Trends of great auk View usage for: great auk in British English noun a large flightless auk, Pinguinus impennis, extinct since the middle of the 19th century great auk in American English a large, flightless auk (Pinguinus impennis) of the N Atlantic, extinct since 1844 great auk in American English noun a large, flightless auk, Pinguinus impennis, of rocky islands off North Atlantic coasts: extinct since 1844 Word origin [1820–30]This word is first recorded in the period 1820–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: acetate, karma, morphology, phonetic, tetrapod Image of great auk © Nicolas Primola, shutterstock Examples of 'great auk' in a sentence great auk They made this stunning recreation of a great auk, right, diving for fish. The Sun (2013) Europe has lost just one breeding bird in 500 years, for example - the islandbreeding great auk in 1844. Times, Sunday Times (2015) The ultimate was a long-gone dodo, but the newly extinct great auk, a 30in penguin-like creature, was a closeish number two. Times, Sunday Times (2016) They won't become extinct - not like the quagga, the thylacine, the passenger pigeon or the great auk. Times, Sunday Times (2009) No one has seen the great auk swim, dive or waddle for more than 170 years. Times, Sunday Times (2013) In a free for all of hunting, it is entirely feasible that, like the great auk in the 19th century, the whale could eventually vanish. Times, Sunday Times (2018) Indeed, the great auk was hunted to extinction, disappearing by the middle of the 19th century. Times, Sunday Times (2012) The loneliness of the last great auk, and its nasty death, became a symbol of man's brutality to nature. Times, Sunday Times (2013) They are miniature relatives of the great auk, but far from being extinct, they are among the most abundant birds in the northern hemisphere. Times, Sunday Times (2012) To them, there was nothing more beautiful than the extinction of a creature such as the great auk. Times, Sunday Times (2017) Word lists with great auk extinct birds
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