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- noun UK, Ireland A large member of the
diver family ,Gavia immer , commonly breeding inNorth America , where it is known as the ascommon loon .
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From the fact that the species is a diver, the largest or greatest of those regularly found off the British Isles, which has a very northerly range (no further south than the British Isles).
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