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SEA GULL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sea gull" is a kind of...):
larid (long-winged web-footed aquatic bird of the gull family)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sea gull"):
Larus canus; mew; mew gull; sea mew (the common gull of Eurasia and northeastern North America)
black-backed gull; cob; great black-backed gull; Larus marinus (white gull having a black back and wings)
herring gull; Larus argentatus (large gull of the northern hemisphere)
blackcap; Larus ridibundus; laughing gull; pewit; pewit gull (small black-headed European gull)
ivory gull; Pagophila eburnea (white Arctic gull; migrates as far south as England and New Brunswick)
kittiwake (small pearl-grey gull of northern regions; nests on cliffs and has a rudimentary hind toe)
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