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Guillemot

noun
1.
Small black or brown speckled auks of northern seas.



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black guillemot
pigeon guillemot


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"Guillemot" Quotes from Famous Books



... between the village and the churchyard were wet and miry from the water. There were streamers of seaweed tangled about the very tombstones, and against the outside of the churchyard wall was piled up a great bank of it, from which came a salt rancid smell like a guillemot's egg that is always in the air after a south-westerly gale has strewn ...
— Moonfleet • J. Meade Falkner
... they do here, only a head or two of game, but an aerial throng of winged creatures, rippling through the sky, flying round the rocks, like white foam, or descending like a snowstorm on their nesting-places; he thinks of eider-duck, guillemot, diver and oyster-catcher swimming in fjord and sound, or sitting upon the rocks; of gulls, ospreys and eagles, hunting in the air; of the eagle-owl, hooting weirdly at night in the mountain-clefts—in short, he means a whole world of birds, and has a little difficulty in confining his ...
— The Visionary - Pictures From Nordland • Jonas Lie


Words linked to "Guillemot" :   pigeon guillemot, Cepphus grylle, Cepphus, murre, black guillemot, genus Cepphus, auk, Cepphus columba


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