sea crowとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

sea crow (plural sea crows)

1. Alternative form of sea-crow (“any of various sea or coastal birds, including a gull, a cormorant, or a chough”)
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:sea-crow.
   1. (Can we verify this sense?) western jackdaw (Coloeus monedula)
   2. (Can we verify this sense?) black-headed peewit, black-headed pewit, black-headed lapwing (Vanellus tectus), and other gulls.
   3. (Can we verify this sense?) skua (Stercorariidae spp.)
   4. (Can we verify this sense?) razorbill (Alca torda)
   5. (Can we verify this sense?) coot (Fulica spp.)

語源 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

名詞

sea crow (plural sea crows)

1. (Can we verify this sense?) A fish of species Chelidonichthys lucerna (syn. Trigla hirundo, sapphirine gurnard).

アナグラム

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名詞

sea-crow (plural sea-crows)

1. (chiefly regional) Any of various birds which may be found at sea or along the coast, especially those of a size or color similar to a crow, or with similar habits:
   1. A gull.
      • For quotations using this term, see Citations:sea-crow.
   2. A chough (Pyrrhocorax spp.).
      • For quotations using this term, see Citations:sea-crow.
   3. A cormorant (Phalacrocoracidae spp.).
      • For quotations using this term, see Citations:sea-crow.

別の表記

• sea crow, seacrow

語源 2

Named either for its dark colour, or from the noise it makes when caught, which is fancied to resemble a crow's caw.

名詞

sea-crow (plural sea-crows)

1. (rare) A sapphirine gurnard, a fish of species Chelidonichthys lucerna (syn. Trigla hirundo).
   • 1722, Oppian, Oppian's Halieuticks of the Nature of Fishes and Fishing of the Ancients, page 229:

     [...] the Sea-Crow[, so called] from his Blackness.

   • 1952, William Diaper, Complete Works, page 137,244:

     [page 137:] And here the Dory spends his easy Days. / Here Sea-Crows dwell, nam'd from their dusky Hue, / And tim'rous Shade-Fish the blind Haunts pursue. [page 244:] Here sea-crows dwell, and the lov'd haunt pursue, / Smeetch'd with dark stain, and nam'd from dusky hue.

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