fulmar
any of certain oceanic birds of the petrel family, especially Fulmarus glacialis, a gull-like Arctic species.
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Kühn was surprised that “within hours, plastic additives can leach from plastic to fulmars.”
Polluting microplastics harm both animals and ecosystems | Alison Pearce Stevens | November 3, 2020 | Science News For StudentsThey lay but a single white egg, the average dimensions of which are slightly smaller than those of the common fulmar.
The Bird Book | Chester A. ReedDo not wake until the fulmar begins to cry: sleep until we hear a sound of young birds.
Eskimo Folktales | UnknownEggs and birds, fresh or salted, furnish them with food; the fulmar with oil: and feathers pay their rent.
British Birds in their Haunts | Rev. C. A. JohnsThe flesh of the fulmar is also a favourite food with the St. Kildans, who like it all the better on account of its oily nature.
British Birds in their Haunts | Rev. C. A. Johns
It rarely comes abroad by day, and if disturbed ejects from its mouth an oily matter, after the manner of the fulmar.
British Birds in their Haunts | Rev. C. A. Johns
British Dictionary definitions for fulmar
/ (ˈfʊlmə) /
any heavily built short-tailed oceanic bird of the genus Fulmarus and related genera, of polar regions: family Procellariidae, order Procellariiformes (petrels)
Origin of fulmar
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