terneryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

tern +‎ -ery

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /tɜːnəɹi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /tɝnəɹi/
• Homophone: ternary

名詞

ternery (複数形 terneries)

1. A colony of terns.
   • 1888, John Alexander Harvie-Brown and Thomas Edward Buckley, A Vertebrate Fauna of the Outer Hebrides, Edinburgh: David Douglas, p. 140,^[1]

     Altogether Harvie-Brown has visited a great many Hebridean terneries, and paid special attention to their inhabitants.

   • 1991, John Hay, The Bird of Light, New York and London: Norton, Chapter 13, p. 117,^[2]

     The reason dead fish are so often found in a ternery is that these are the ones that have proved to be too much for the chicks to swallow.