shearwater / ˈʃɪərˌwɔ tər, -ˌwɒt ər /
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shearwater 的定义
n. 名词 noun- any of several long-winged petrels of the genus Puffinus that appear to shear the water with their wing tips when flying low.
更多shearwater例句
- After a while, a handful of shearwaters appear in the air above the Cat Balou.
- So, in order to understand what happened, first you need to know how a flock of birds—like thousands of shearwaters—fly and move together.
- It is a similar bird to the Sooty Shearwater, but is considerably darker and the under coverts are whitish.
- The common name, however, is retained and the species stands 95, Sooty Shearwater (Puffinus griseus).
- The Great Shearwater is far less abundant than the preceding species, and may indeed be considered a rarity.
- The Great Shearwater differs little in habits, as far as they are known, from the other species.
- The Manx Shearwater comes next in size, but it is a dark-plumaged bird on the upper parts, only white below.