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seabird

/see-burd/US // ˈsiˌbɜrd //

海鸟,海燕,海鸥

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a bird frequenting the sea or coast.

Examples

  • Other seabirds aim for the calmer eye of the storm so as not to get ravaged by its spiral, effectively “eye-riding,” much like their hurricane-hunting human counterparts.

  • However, the findings could help scientists better gauge the threats facing seabird populations now and in the future.

  • There is a more robust nutrient flow between the water and the land, thanks to the seabirds, increasing the fish biomass off these healthy islands.

  • In the height of summer, when they’re filled with seabirds, “It’s just bird cacophony all over the place,” she recalls.

  • In this place, for reasons that aren’t entirely clear to scientists, seabirds who become lost as they fly along the coast, or across the ocean, congregate.

  • Operation Seabird began while the storm was still over water.

  • The boys soon saw the Seabird plowing her way to the landing.

  • On the night of the shooting one hundred men proceeded to the Pacific street wharf where the Coliah and Seabird were anchored.

  • The Seabird goes over it like one of her namesakes; she is not taking a teacupful now over her bows.

  • The Seabird felt the relief from the pressure of the heavy boom to leeward and rose easily and lightly over the waves.

  • The Seabird passed within a cable's length of the breakers at the northern end of the reef.