sea pigeon

名词 n.
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名词 n.
  1. The black guillemot (Cepphus grylle).
    — At length my son asked for the telescope, and on returning it carelessly remarked, "There are a couple of black guillemots." Macleod was alive in a moment—"That's the sea-pigeon."
  2. The pigeon guillemot (Cepphus columba).
    — The pigeon guillemot, or sea pigeon, comes next. Its home is to be found close to the water's edge, in the little coves and clefts of the rocks, and it delights to sit on a rock where it is almost reached by every return of the swell.
  3. A common guillemot (Uria aalge).
    — Believing that low aquatic birds would more readily yield these evidences, a visit was made to Grand Menan, at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, and at that place were obtained the embryos of the razorbill auk, eider duck, sea pigeon, herring gull and petrel.
  4. The Mandt's guillemot (Cepphus mandtii).
    — MANDT's GUILLEMOT (C. mandtii) is a northern variety of the Sea Pigeon, differing from grylle in lacking the black bar on the wing-patch, and having a somewhat stouter bill.
  5. The cormorant.
    — One of the oddest creatures in the sea is the sea pigeon, a long black shape as thick as a small cable, the head of which is like a crown of very soft feathers, and is very often seen in shallow muddy stretches near the shore.
  6. Bonaparte's gull (Chroicocephalus philadelphia).
    — Bonaparte's Gull. Little bass gull; sea pigeon (from its general figure and small size among gulls).
  7. A reddish brown marine invertebrate that propels itself by flaps that resemble wings.
    — The sea pigeon was no bird but a slug-like marine invertebrate.

词形变化

sea pigeons plural
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