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noun təːntərn A seabird related to the gulls, typically smaller and more slender, with long pointed wings and a forked tail. 燕鸥 Family Sternidae (or Laridae): several genera, in particular Sterna, and many species Example sentencesExamples - Rhia was amazed that the marine birds - gulls, terns and cormorants - went about their business as though the weather were of little consequence.
- While there are few wild animals in Iceland, there is abundant birdlife - ducks, geese and, among the many sea-birds I spotted, petrels, puffins, tern, gannets, skuas and shearwaters.
- The waters surrounding Pigeon Island offer great fishing for sea birds including gulls, terns and the brown booby.
- Lone Little Gulls are often found amidst flocks of Bonaparte's Gulls and terns.
- As you explore the tidal marshes and brackish ponds, remember to look upward from time to time: for osprey and terns diving in the sky and bald eagles on top of the tallest pines.
- You may also observe jaegers, terns, and petrels as they make their long ocean journey and be rewarded with views of flying fish and the occasional humpback whale.
- Virtually every conservation body in the land controls foxes to stop predation of a range of birds from terns to avocets to grey partridges.
- The estate is home to a variety of bird life, from breeding common terns, nightingales and tufted ducks to vast numbers of wintering birds, such as wigeon, smew and goosander.
- Reports from South Beach, Chatham, indicate extraordinarily high numbers of terns and shorebirds.
- Around the rocky shores sea birds such as gulls, terns, cormorants, gannets and puffins nested in the cliffs and dunes.
- The largest of the terns, the Caspian Tern is one of the most widespread tern species in the world, occurring on every continent except Antarctica.
- In gulls and terns, differences in chick survival may be more affected by compositional changes in the amount of lipid or protein in the eggs than by overall size of the egg.
- Unlike many larger terns, the Common Tern does not have a crest.
- In this lagoon, brown pelicans, double-crested cormorants, great and snowy egrets, and numerous terns and gulls forage for fish and other items of food all day long.
- Predators of barracuda include such birds as bald eagles and terns.
- Even in Scotland, which has some thriving water-bird populations, species such as shag, arctic skua, herring gull, kittiwake and terns are under threat.
- Here, 600 acres of the former Naval Air Station plus 400 acres of bay are being cleaned up for endangered California least terns as well as northern harriers, great blue herons, and brown pelicans.
- Elegant Terns sometimes breed in mixed colonies with other terns or Heerman's Gulls, where their nests are packed closely together.
- Although terns are closely related to seagulls, sharing a general black-and-grey pattern of plumage with their cousins, they have slim silvery bodies and deeply forked tails.
- Unlike seabirds like terns or shearwaters, which can rest and feed along the way, the curlews will drown if they land on the ocean.
OriginLate 17th century: of Scandinavian origin; related to Danish terne and Swedish tärna, both from Old Norse therna. Rhymesadjourn, astern, Berne, burn, churn, concern, discern, earn, fern, fohn, kern, learn, Lucerne, quern, Sauternes, spurn, stern, Sterne, terne, Traherne, turn, urn, Verne, yearn noun təːntərn rare A set of three, especially three lottery numbers that when drawn together win a large prize. 〈罕〉（尤指中彩号码）三个一套；三重；三个一组 Example sentencesExamples - Three lemons in a row on a fruit machine could be called a 'tern'.
- The terno seco, or "straight" tern, differs from the plain tern in being governed by some special conditions that heighten still more the risk, such as the requirement that the player must stake all on his ‘terno’, without the right, should he miss part of his three numbers, to claim the benefit of the resulting ‘ambo’ or ‘extracto’.
- There were additional prizes for winning sequences of numbers, three in a row being a tern and four a quatern.
OriginLate Middle English: apparently from French terne, from Latin terni 'three at once, three each', from ter 'thrice'. nountərntərn A seabird related to the gulls, typically smaller and more slender, with long pointed wings and a forked tail. 燕鸥 Family Sternidae (or Laridae): several genera, in particular Sterna, and many species Example sentencesExamples - Around the rocky shores sea birds such as gulls, terns, cormorants, gannets and puffins nested in the cliffs and dunes.
- Lone Little Gulls are often found amidst flocks of Bonaparte's Gulls and terns.
- In this lagoon, brown pelicans, double-crested cormorants, great and snowy egrets, and numerous terns and gulls forage for fish and other items of food all day long.
- You may also observe jaegers, terns, and petrels as they make their long ocean journey and be rewarded with views of flying fish and the occasional humpback whale.
- The largest of the terns, the Caspian Tern is one of the most widespread tern species in the world, occurring on every continent except Antarctica.
- Virtually every conservation body in the land controls foxes to stop predation of a range of birds from terns to avocets to grey partridges.
- Predators of barracuda include such birds as bald eagles and terns.
- Rhia was amazed that the marine birds - gulls, terns and cormorants - went about their business as though the weather were of little consequence.
- Here, 600 acres of the former Naval Air Station plus 400 acres of bay are being cleaned up for endangered California least terns as well as northern harriers, great blue herons, and brown pelicans.
- As you explore the tidal marshes and brackish ponds, remember to look upward from time to time: for osprey and terns diving in the sky and bald eagles on top of the tallest pines.
- While there are few wild animals in Iceland, there is abundant birdlife - ducks, geese and, among the many sea-birds I spotted, petrels, puffins, tern, gannets, skuas and shearwaters.
- Unlike seabirds like terns or shearwaters, which can rest and feed along the way, the curlews will drown if they land on the ocean.
- The waters surrounding Pigeon Island offer great fishing for sea birds including gulls, terns and the brown booby.
- In gulls and terns, differences in chick survival may be more affected by compositional changes in the amount of lipid or protein in the eggs than by overall size of the egg.
- The estate is home to a variety of bird life, from breeding common terns, nightingales and tufted ducks to vast numbers of wintering birds, such as wigeon, smew and goosander.
- Even in Scotland, which has some thriving water-bird populations, species such as shag, arctic skua, herring gull, kittiwake and terns are under threat.
- Unlike many larger terns, the Common Tern does not have a crest.
- Reports from South Beach, Chatham, indicate extraordinarily high numbers of terns and shorebirds.
- Although terns are closely related to seagulls, sharing a general black-and-grey pattern of plumage with their cousins, they have slim silvery bodies and deeply forked tails.
- Elegant Terns sometimes breed in mixed colonies with other terns or Heerman's Gulls, where their nests are packed closely together.
OriginLate 17th century: of Scandinavian origin; related to Danish terne and Swedish tärna, both from Old Norse therna. nountərntərn rare A set of three, especially three lottery numbers that when drawn together win a large prize. 〈罕〉（尤指中彩号码）三个一套；三重；三个一组 Example sentencesExamples - Three lemons in a row on a fruit machine could be called a 'tern'.
- There were additional prizes for winning sequences of numbers, three in a row being a tern and four a quatern.
- The terno seco, or "straight" tern, differs from the plain tern in being governed by some special conditions that heighten still more the risk, such as the requirement that the player must stake all on his ‘terno’, without the right, should he miss part of his three numbers, to claim the benefit of the resulting ‘ambo’ or ‘extracto’.
OriginLate Middle English: apparently from French terne, from Latin terni ‘three at once, three each’, from ter ‘thrice’. |