Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of the Greenland sea-dove or black guillemot, Uria or Cephus grylle: made by Brandt in 1836 a generic name of the same.
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Examples
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Black guillemots (Cepphus grylle) and thickbilled murres (Uria lomvia) feed on the amphipod Gammarus wilkitzkii.
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Common eiders, thick-billed murre, and black guillemot (Cepphus grylle) are the most commonly harvested seabird species in arctic Canada, and are utilized by indigenous people wherever they are available [33].
Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic 2009
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_Fratercula cirrhata_, a black guillemot (_Una grylle_ var. _columba_), a species of cormorant (Phalocrocorax) and a sort of gull (Larus).
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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Along with the rotge and the loom two nearly allied species of birds, _lunnefogeln_, the Arctic puffin (_Mormon arcticus_, L.) and _tejsten_ or _tobis-grisslan_, the black guillemot (_Uria grylle_, L.) are to be seen among the drift-ice.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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Brünnich's guillemots (_Uria Brünnichii_, Sabine), and black guillemots (_Uria grylle_, L.) now swarm in the air and swim among the ice floes.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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Black guillemots (Cepphus grylle) and thickbilled murres (Uria lomvia) feed on the amphipod Gammarus wilkitzkii.
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Brünnichii_, Sabine) and the _Black guillemot_ (_Uria grylle_, L.)
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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Somateria fisheri), black guillemot (Cepphus grylle
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