Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Either of two large auks, Uria aalge or U. lomvia, having a black back and head and white underparts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The common guillemot, Uria or Lomvia troile, and other species of the genus, as U. or L. brünnichi, the thick-billed murre or guillemot.
- noun The similar but quite distinct razor-billed auk, Alca or Utamania torda. See cut under
razor-bill . - noun See
mur .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of sea birds of the genus Uria, or Catarractes; a guillemot.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun any of the seabirds of the genus Uria in the
auk family
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun black-and-white diving bird of northern seas
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Suddenly, one of the glaucous gulls — a huge white-and-gray predatory bird — snatched a young murre from a ledge, swallowing it whole.
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Suddenly, one of the glaucous gulls — a huge white-and-gray predatory bird — snatched a young murre from a ledge, swallowing it whole.
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For instance, "murre" (in standard Spanish, "muy"): "Esta muchita es murre gente" ( 'This child is very friendly').
La "v" y la "b" 2004
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In the commotion, the egg of another murre fell and smashed on the rocks below.
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In the commotion, the egg of another murre fell and smashed on the rocks below.
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Birds such as the common murre and pigeon guillemot recovered slightly shortly after the Exxon Valdez spill, then saw their numbers plummet the next decade, she says.
Scientists grapple with BP oil spill's cost to bird life 2011
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Categories: antler, bruce taylor, linda aschbrenner, philip dacey, ralph murre, susan firer charles p. ries | ries reviews
March « 2010 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2010
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He has additionally been working on different aspects of the behavior of seabirds, especially the common murre (Uria aalge), and is knowledgeable about biological philosophy as well as biology education.
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Contact you dream? you listen? spoken word? ralph murre | a few haiku in autumn
ralph murre | a few haiku in autumn « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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The two most harvested species are crested auklet (Aethia cristatella) (about 12,000) and common murre (about 10,000) [71].
Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic 2009
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