petrel

petrel怎么读

英式音标：[ˈpetrəl]

美式音标：[ˈpɛtrəl]

petrel基本解释

n. [鸟] 海燕

petrel的意思释义

n.

海燕；

变形

复数：petrels

英英释义

n.relatively small long-winged tube-nosed bird that flies far from land

petrel用法及例句

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

The petrel came winnowing in from afar on the sea.

海燕从海上遥远的地方振翅飞来。

例句参考

Petrel parents shunt all experimentally increased reproductive costs to their offspring

Energetics of Postnatal Growth in Leach\'s Storm-Petrel

Body Condition and Seabird Reproductive Performance: A Study of Three Petrel Species

Incubation routine, body mass reglation and egg neglect in the Blue Petrel Halobaena ca-eruka

Incubation routine, body mass regulation and egg neglect in the Blue Petrel Halobaena caerulea

Influence of Body Condition on Reproductive Decision and Reproductive Success in the Blue Petrel

Applicability of external measurements to sexing of the Cape petrel Daption capense at within-pair, within-population and between-po...

The Regular Alternation of Short and Long Foraging Trips in the Blue Petrel Halobaena caerulea: A Previously Undescribed Strategy of...

High annual variability in reproductive success and survival of an Antarctic seabird, the snow petrel Pagodroma nivea : A 27-year st...

petrel词源

petrel

petrel: [17] The petrel, a gull-like seabird, is alleged to have been named after the apostle Peter, supposedly inspired by the resemblance between the petrel’s habit of flying close to the surface of the sea and touching it with its feet, and Peter’s reported feat of walking on the water, as reported in Matthew 14:29 – ‘And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus’

petrel (n.)

seabird, 1670s, pitteral, modern spelling first recorded 1703 by English explorer William Dampier (1651-1715), who wrote the bird was so called from its way of flying with its feet just skimming the surface of the water, which recalls the apostle\'s walk on the sea of Galilee (Matt. xiv:28); if so, it likely was formed in English as a diminutive of Peter (Late Latin Petrus). If this is folk etymology, the true source of the name is undiscovered. French pétrel (1760) probably is from English.