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sea-crow en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

Calque of Latin corvus maritimus (“cormorant”).

Meanings

  1. (regional) Any of various birds which may be found at sea or along the coast, especially those of a size or color similar to a crow, or with similar habits: ▸ A gull.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:sea-crow.
  2. (regional) Any of various birds which may be found at sea or along the coast, especially those of a size or color similar to a crow, or with similar habits: ▸ A chough (Pyrrhocorax spp.).
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:sea-crow.
  3. (regional) Any of various birds which may be found at sea or along the coast, especially those of a size or color similar to a crow, or with similar habits: ▸ A cormorant (Phalacrocoracidae spp.).
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:sea-crow.

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sea-crow en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

Named either for its dark colour, or from the noise it makes when caught, which is fancied to resemble a crow's caw.

Meanings

  1. (rare) A sapphirine gurnard, a fish of species Chelidonichthys lucerna (syn. Trigla hirundo).
    • [...] the Sea-Crow[, so called] from his Blackness. 1722, Oppian, Oppian's Halieuticks of the Nature of Fishes and Fishing of the Ancients, page 229:
    • [page 137:] And here the Dory spends his easy Days. / Here Sea-Crows dwell, nam'd from their dusky Hue, / And tim'rous Shade-Fish the blind Haunts pursue. [page 244:] Here sea-crows dwell, and the lov'd haunt pursue, / Smeetch'd with dark stain, and nam'd from dusky hue. 1952, William Diaper, Complete Works, page 137,244:

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