1) Auk 2) Murre
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1) Seabird
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Guillemots is the common name for several species of seabird in the auk family (part of the order Charadriiformes). In British use, the term comprises two genera: Uria and Cepphus. In North America the Uria species are called `murres` and only the Cepphus species are called `guillemots`. This word of French origin apparently derives from a for...
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narrow-billed Atlantic auk
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• (n.) One of several northern sea birds, allied to the auks. They have short legs, placed far back, and are expert divers and swimmers.
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any of three species of black and white seabirds of the genus Cepphus, in the auk family, Alcidae. The birds have a pointed, black bill and red ... [3 related articles]
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<ornithology> One of several northern sea birds, allied to the auks. They have short legs, placed far back, and are expert divers and swimmers. ... The common guillemots, or murres, belong to the genus Uria (as U. Troile); the black or foolish guillemot (Cepphus grylle, formerly Uria grylle), is ... Synonym: sea pigeon and eligny. See Murre. ...
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Guil'le·mot` noun [ French]
(Zoology) One of several northern sea birds, allied to the auks. They have short legs, placed far back, and are expert divers and swimmers. » The common guillemots, or murres, belong to the genus
Uria (as
U. troile ); the black or foolish guillemot...
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The guillemot is a web-footed bird of the Alcidae family. The guillemot has a straight, compressed and pointed bill covered with feathers as far as the nostrils. The wings are pointed and very short and the legs are short and placed far back. Guillemots eat fish and nest on sea cliffs.
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Guillemot is London Cockney rhyming slang for a fool (twat).
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n] - small black or brown speckled auks of northern seas
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The white grape variety comes from France. Synonyms are Bougaou, Coe de Baque, Gouboil, Mourejales. According to DNA analyses carried out in 2010, it is a cross between Manseng Noir x Verjus (table grape), although this is based on only 20 DNA markers (see molecular genetics). The variety is no longer important.
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noun small black or brown speckled auks of northern seas
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Any of several diving seabirds belonging to the auk family that breed on rocky North Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The common guillemot (
U. aalge) has a long straight beak and short tail and wings; the feet are three-toed and webbed, the feathers are sooty brown and white. It breeds in large colonies on sea cliffs. The bla...
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a black or brown-speckled seabird of the genus Cepphus, of northern seas, having a sharply pointed black bill, red legs, and white wing patches, as C. grylleof the North Atlantic and the similar C. columbaof the North Pacific. · a murre of the genus Uria.
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