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sandwich tern in British English

noun
a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
Word origin
C18: from the town of Sandwich in Kent

Examples of 'sandwich tern' in a sentence
sandwich tern

The noise of the sandwich tern colony was a screaming cacophony.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The other tern that is now passing through in some numbers is the sandwich tern.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
And then there's the poor old sandwich tern, the subject of 2012's famous government study into the maximum guillotining allowance per farm.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
It is like a large, distinguished, orange-beaked sandwich tern, and birders have flocked to see it.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
A less common, beach-nesting tern, the sandwich tern, has been noticed at several places inland.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Sandwich terns are back on the beaches where they will nest next month.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Sandwich terns are named not for the snack but the town.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
A third wind farm, perceived as a threat to a colony of sandwich terns, was rejected.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Sandwich terns in impossible numbers, a thousand of them, burly but elegant, comely with a voice of splendid ugliness.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Sandwich terns are the chunkiest, with a pleasing strength, though they are still sharp and pointed alongside a gull.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
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