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Any seabird of the genus Uria in the family Alcidae (the auks).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 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.
Meaning relationships
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black-and-white diving bird of northern seas
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
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Broader terms: guillemot
Narrower terms: common murre, Uria aalge, thick-billed murre, Uria lomvia
Unknown, possibly imitative of the birds' call.
Across languages
Translations
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Asturian:
aráu
— seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family
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Asturian:
calón
— seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family
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Asturian:
pitorru
— seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family
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Chukchi:
ӄэруӄэр
(qėruqėr)
— seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family
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Chukchi:
ӄэрут
(qėrut)
— seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family
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Czech:
alkoun
— seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family
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Faroese:
lomvigi
— seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family
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Faroese:
lomviga
— seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family
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Finnish:
kiisla
— seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family
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Hungarian:
lumma
— seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family
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Inuktitut:
ᐊᒃᐸ
(akpa)
— seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family
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Korean:
바다오리
(badaori)
— seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family
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Norman:
âne dé mé
— seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family
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Norman:
dgillemot
— seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family
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Norwegian Bokmål:
lomvi
— seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family
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Polish:
nurzyk
— seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family
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Portuguese:
airo
— seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family
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Russian:
ка́йра
(kájra)
— seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family
