Term Gallery logo

Meanings of laughing gull in English

Catalan
gavina riallera

Small black-headed European gull.

gavina riallera
Synonyms
Examples for "blackcap"
Examples for "blackcap"
1
From a verbena hard by came the liquid song of a blackcap.
South Wind
2
The songs of chiffchaff, blackcap and crickets play out with distant skylarks.
The Guardian
3
The most musical singer we heard was the blackcap warbler.
Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
4
A few years ago a blackcap joined the throng, at first an interesting, rare visitor.
The Irish Times
5
Is the blackcap extending its range, or was it simply blown here by gale-force winds?
The Irish Times
1
Remember the pewit call if we lose sight of each other.
The Scotch Twins
2
She puckered her lips and gave the pewit call, but there was no answer.
The Scotch Twins
3
If you see a man, keep still in your places and give the pewit call.
The Scotch Twins
4
I, too, heard the pewit's plaint in my childhood and caught the sun-fish in the brook.
The Making of an American
5
He gave the pewit's call and waited.
The Scotch Twins
Usage of laughing gull in English
1
Far away was heard the lonely cry of a laughing gull.
Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885
2
Puffin, Leach's petrel, eider duck, laughing gull, great blue heron, fish-hawk and bald eagle.-(Arthur H. Norton, Portland.)
Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation
3
His wild, laughing cry has given him the nickname of Laughing Gull.
On the Seashore / Cassell's "Eyes and No Eyes" Series, Book VII
This collocation consists of:
Translations for laughing gull