murreとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Unknown, possibly imitative of the birds' call.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /mɜː/
• (米国発音) IPA: /mɝ/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)
• 異形同音異義語: murr, myrrh

名詞

murre (plural murres)

1. Any seabird of the genus Uria in the family Alcidae (the auks).
   • 1990, David G. Ainley, Seabirds of the Farallon Islands: Ecology, Dynamics, and Structure of an Upwelling-System Community‎, page 252:

     It may be that in one year alone, the Farallon murre population was reduced to the level at which it stood during the mid-1990s

   • 1997, Robert Wayne Campbell, Neil K. Dawe, The Birds of British Columbia, Volume 2: Nonpasserines: Diurnal birds of prey through woodpeckers, page 296,

     About 2,800 pairs of Common Murres breed in the province, most of which are in the Scott Islands off northwestern Vancouver Island.

   • 2000, Susan Allport, The Primal Feast: Food, Sex, Foraging, and Love, 2003, paperback, page 52,

     Staking out a spot involves not only the appropriate level of murre aggression (some murres are so aggressive that they throw their mates off the ledge) but, even more fundamentally, the ability to find food efficiently.

同意語

• (any bird of genus Uria): guillemot

派生語

参考

• merganser
• razorbill (relative)

アナグラム

• Rumer