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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various terns, especially Sterna hirundo, which breeds in Arctic and subarctic regions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- The common tern.
- The storm petrel.
- The gannet.
- (Her.) See Cornish chough, under
Chough .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK The common tern.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun common tern of Eurasia and America having white black and grey plumage
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