Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ornith.: A genus of diving birds, the loons: synonymous with Colymbus or Urinator. Moehring, 1752. A genus of Alcidæ founded by P. S. Pallas in 1769, now commonly called
Uria ; the black guillemots.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a genus comprising the gillemots.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a genus of birds including: guillemots
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There are also the white gull, the cepphus, the aethyia, and the charadrius.
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The cepphus is caught by means of sea-foam; the bird snaps at the foam, and consequently fishermen catch it by sluicing with showers of sea-water.
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