tern

/turn/US // tɜrn //UK // (tɜːn) //

海鸥,燕鸥,海鸥号,海燕

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : any of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, especially those of the genus Sterna, as S. hirundo, of Eurasia and America, having white, black, and gray plumage.

as inschooner

Synonyms

The Common Tern is a regular but not numerous spring and autumn visitant to the Islands, some remaining to breed.
I mark this by inserting a paragraph-mark ( ) at the beginning of each tern.
Each tern is occupied with a distinct subject, which I indicate by headings, viz.
The latter had shot and wounded a tern, but before he could reach it, the helpless bird was carried off by its companions.
The common tern and the greater sand-plover nested on the shingly islands in the river.