ternery
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tɜːnəɹi/
- (General American) IPA(key): /tɝnəɹi/
- Homophone: ternary
Noun
ternery (plural terneries)
- 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,
- 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,
- 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.
- 1888, John Alexander Harvie-Brown and Thomas Edward Buckley, A Vertebrate Fauna of the Outer Hebrides, Edinburgh: David Douglas, p. 140,
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