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TERN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("tern" is a kind of...):
larid (long-winged web-footed aquatic bird of the gull family)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tern"):
sea swallow; Sterna hirundo (common tern of Eurasia and America having white black and grey plumage)
Holonyms ("tern" is a member of...):
Sterninae; subfamily Sterninae (terns)
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