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bottle n Cp OED bottle nose 3 'dial. name of the puffin' obs (1678),
NID bottle-nosed diver.
Comb bottle-arse spider:
common spider with bulbous body,
C 68-12 The bottle-arse
spider was the type that would bring rain if [you killed it].
bottle-arse squid: small 'squid' with shape like a pouch.
1968 MERCER 1 Squids of this genus (Rossia palpebrosa) are
small ... and have a bursiform configuration, leading to such names as 'bottleass squid'
and 'purse squid' in Newfoundland. P 1-75 Bottle-ass squid is commonly used amongst some
fishermen.
bottle-brush: Canadian burnet, a perennial herb
with long club-shaped stamens (Sanguisorba canadensis) (1956 ROULEAU 27).
bottle nose, ~ -nosed diver, ~ - nosed duck: (a)
PUFFIN1 (Fratercula arctica); SEA-PARROT; (b) the surf scoter
(Melanitta perspicillata); (c) nickname for resident of Bay Bulls.
[1620] 1887 MASON 151 The sea fowles, are... Bottle noses, with
other sorts. [1771] 1792 CARTWRIGHT i, 129 Killed a shell-bird and a bottle-nosed diver.
1861 Harper's xxii, 753 Strange birds hovered around ... saddle-back gulls,
bottle-nosed ducks, hagden, auks. 1870 Can Naturalist v, 302 Provincial names [of
the surf duck are] 'Bottle-nosed diver' and 'Bald coot.' 1959 MCATEE 18 ~ Surf Scoter
(The bill of the male is enlarged basally.) C 64-1 Mobile goats, Witless Bay gammy birds,
Bay Bulls bottle noses.
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