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SEA GULL

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• SEA GULL (noun)
The noun SEA GULL has 1 sense:

1. mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs

Familiarity information: SEA GULL used as a noun is very rare.

• SEA GULL (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

sea gull; seagull; gull

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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(Albanian proverb)
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(Arabic proverb)
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(Dutch proverb)

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