Found 4 hits - Term: fulmarus glacialis, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
fulmar \ful"mar\ fu^lmaumr, n. icel. f=ulm=ar. see
foul, and man a gull. zool.
one of several species of sea birds, of the family
procellariidae, allied to the albatrosses and petrels.
among the well-known species are the arctic fulmar
fulmarus glacialis called also fulmar petrel,
malduck, and mollemock, and the giant fulmar ossifraga
gigantea.
1913 webster
see also:
foul man procellariidae arctic fulmar fulmarus glacialis fulmar petrel
malduck mollemock ossifraga gigantea
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
noddy \nod"dy\, n.; pl. noddies. prob. fr. nod to incline the
head, either as in assent, or from drowsiness.
1. a simpleton; a fool. --l'estrange.
syn: tomnoddy.
1913 webster
2. zool.
a any tern of the genus anous, as anous stolidus.
b the arctic fulmar fulmarus glacialis. sometimes
also applied to other sea birds.
1913 webster
3. an old game at cards. --halliwell.
1913 webster
4. a small two-wheeled one-horse vehicle.
1913 webster
5. an inverted pendulum consisting of a short vertical flat
spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top; --
used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal
vibrations of a body to which it is attached.
1913 webster
see also:
noddies anous anous stolidus fulmarus glacialis
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
mollemoke \mol"lemoke`\, n. sw. mallemucke the stormy petrel.
zool.
any one of several species of large pelagic petrels and
fulmars, as fulmarus glacialis, of the north atlantic, and
several species of aestrelata, of the southern ocean. see
fulmar. written also mollymawk, malmock, mollemock,
mallemocke, etc.
1913 webster
see also:
fulmarus glacialis aestrelata fulmar mollymawk malmock mollemock
mallemocke
- [4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
fulmarus glacialis
n : heavy short-tailed oceanic bird of polar regions syn: fulmar,
fulmar petrel
see also:
fulmar fulmar petrel
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