单词	great auk
释义	great auk noun : an extinct large flightless auk (Pinguinus impennis) formerly abundant along North Atlantic coasts Example Sentences Recent Examples on the Web This is a great auk, which was driven to extinction. Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 10 Mar. 2022 Museums and merchants started paying top dollar for great auk eggs and skins. New York Times, 4 Dec. 2019 Was the great auk heading for extinction before intensive hunting began? The Conversation/jessica Emma Thomas, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2019 Despite its appearance, the great auk is actually a relative of razorbills and puffins, not of penguins. The Conversation/jessica Emma Thomas, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2019 The great auk had long provided humans with a source of meat and eggs. The Conversation/jessica Emma Thomas, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2019 In the past, researchers have speculated that environmental change topped off by human greed took down the great auk. New York Times, 4 Dec. 2019 The great auk, a large, flightless bird with a black back and a white belly, once lived across the North Atlantic—from Scandinavia to the eastern coast of Canada. Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 28 Nov. 2019 Like the dodo and the great auk, the tiger found a curious immortality as a global icon of extinction, more renowned for the tragedy of its death than for its life, about which little is known. Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2012 See More Word History First Known Use 1768, in the meaning defined above
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