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English
Etymology
Ancient Greek a lid + nose.
Pronunciation
Noun
pomarine (plural pomarines)
- A pomarine jaeger.
1859, The zoologist: a popular miscellany of natural history, page 6331:See, you have a couple of them lying on the water, wounded : you pick them up, and find them both pomarines, the one an old bird, with the two central tail-feathers elongated and rounded at their tips; the other a young bird […]
1875, Edward Newman, James Edmund Harting, William Lucas Distant, Frank Finn, The Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History ..., page 4701:[...] to have been pomarines : the first flock of ten or twelve birds were undoubtedly of that species, their great size and clumsy-looking tails clearly pointing them out as such, and all exhibiting white underneath, and long tails […]
2012 July 31, E. C. Pielou, A Naturalist's Guide to the Arctic, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 225:All three species occur in two color phases: a light phase, with dark gray-brown back and white underparts, across which (in pomarines and parasitics) there is usually a grayish breast-band; and a dark phase […]
Further reading
- “pomarine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “pomarine”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.