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    SEA GULL

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legsplay

    Synonyms:

    gull; sea gull; seagull

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    Nouns denoting animals

    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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