单词 | tern |
释义 | tern (once / 9760 pages) n WORD FAMILY tern: terns USAGE EXAMPLESThe charity said its wildlife workers are more used to dealing with gulls and terns. BBC(Dec 16, 2016) More than once, a flock of terns or a bobbing seal tipped me off to a fishy spot I might otherwise have overlooked. New York Times(Nov 24, 2016) Big fish, seals, cormorants, gulls, and terns congregate in the tides, plucking out herring and mackerel as they move. The New Yorker(Oct 17, 2016) n small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail Hypo|Hyper Sterna hirundo, sea swallow common tern of Eurasia and America having white black and grey plumage larid long-winged web-footed aquatic bird of the gull family |
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