hagdonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• hag, hagdown, haglin, hagden

語源

Unknown. Compare later haglet (“shearwater, petrel”). Attested (as hagden) from the 17th century.

名詞

hagdon (plural hagdons)

1. (regional, now rare) Any member of any of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus, especially, of species Ardenna gravis (syn. Puffinus gravis, Puffinus major; great shearwater) and of species Puffinus stricklandi (black hagdon or sooty shearwater).

参照

• hagdon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Puffinus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• “hagden, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2016.
• “hagdon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.