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seabird

English

Alternative forms

  • sea bird

Etymology

sea +? bird

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?si?b??(?)d/

Noun

seabird (plural seabirds)

  1. Any bird that spends most of its time in coastal waters or over the oceans.

Synonyms

  • seafowl

Hyponyms

  • albatross
  • cormorant
  • gannet
  • guillemot
  • gull
  • pelican
  • petrel

Translations

Anagrams

  • Beairds, abiders, air beds, airbeds, bardies, barside, braised, darbies, sidebar

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skua

English

Etymology

From Faroese skúgvur (Great Skua), from Old Norse skúfr, of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?skju??/
  • Homophone: skewer (in non-rhotic accents)

Noun

skua (plural skuas)

  1. Any of various predatory seabirds of the family Stercorariidae that often chase other seabirds to steal their catches.

Synonyms

  • jaeger

Translations

See also

  • skua on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Aksu, Kasu, Kaus, Sauk, auks

French

Etymology

From Faroese skúgvur (Great Skua).

Noun

skua m (plural skuas)

  1. great skua

Synonyms

  • grand labbe

See also

  • Skua on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
  • labbe

Further reading

  • “skua” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

  • (of noun) skuene
  • (of verb) skuet

Noun

skua n

  1. definite plural of skue

Verb

skua

  1. inflection of skue:
    1. simple past
    2. past participle

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