garefowl

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The great auk.
    — The Faroese men were able to catch more than a dozen gare-fowl along with 200 guillemots and numerous gannets, collecting them from rocks which the Icelanders were not brave enough to climb.
  2. The razorbill archaic,rare

词形变化

garefowls plural gairfowl alternative gare-fowl alternative gurfel alternative

词源

From Icelandic geirfugl, from Old Norse geirfugl (“great auk”), related to Swedish garfågel, Danish geirfugl, Faroese geirfuglur, gorfuglur, French gorfou.
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