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

jaeger

/ˈdʒeɪɡə

noun North American

Any of the smaller kinds of Arctic-breeding skuas.

Genus Stercorarius, family Stercorariidae: three species, e.g. the parasitic jaeger or Arctic skua (S. parasiticus).

Sandy Neck, Barnstable, and First Encounter Beach, Eastham, are Cape places to observe shearwaters, jaegers, phalaropes, ducks, gannets and for a few lucky sentinels, an occasional northern fulmar....

Usually you can expect to see great numbers of pelagic birds - gannets, shearwaters, jaegers, storm-petrels, alcids - that live mainly at sea.
On the other hand, there is a rich community of specialist and generalist predators (arctic foxes, stoats, snowy owls, rough-legged hawks, gulls, jaegers and ravens), all of which feed on lemmings.

Origin

Mid 19th century (applied to any predatory seabird): from German Jäger 'hunter', from jagen 'to hunt'.

单词	jaeger
释义	jaeger /ˈdʒeɪɡə / noun North American Any of the smaller kinds of Arctic-breeding skuas. Genus Stercorarius, family Stercorariidae: three species, e.g. the parasitic jaeger or Arctic skua (S. parasiticus). Sandy Neck, Barnstable, and First Encounter Beach, Eastham, are Cape places to observe shearwaters, jaegers, phalaropes, ducks, gannets and for a few lucky sentinels, an occasional northern fulmar.... Usually you can expect to see great numbers of pelagic birds - gannets, shearwaters, jaegers, storm-petrels, alcids - that live mainly at sea. On the other hand, there is a rich community of specialist and generalist predators (arctic foxes, stoats, snowy owls, rough-legged hawks, gulls, jaegers and ravens), all of which feed on lemmings. Origin Mid 19th century (applied to any predatory seabird): from German Jäger 'hunter', from jagen 'to hunt'.
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