guillemot
a black or brown-speckled seabird of the genus Cepphus, of northern seas, having a sharply pointed black bill, red legs, and white wing patches, as C. grylle(black guillemot ), of the North Atlantic Ocean and the similar C. columba(pigeon guillemot ) of the North Pacific Ocean.
British. a murre of the genus Uria.
Origin of guillemot
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How to use guillemot in a sentence
Guillemots are larger birds than the Murrelets (length 13 inches) and their plumage is entirely different.
The Bird Book | Chester A. ReedAnd when the spring came, they began hunting guillemots; driving them together in flocks and killing them so.
Eskimo Folktales | UnknownUria, ū′ri-a, n. a genus of Alcid—the guillemots and murres.
The Guillemots and Razorbills and Puffins are somewhat irregular in their date of return to the cliffs in spring.
Among the Birds in Northern Shires | Charles DixonA few sea-birds, gulls or guillemots, were skimming along the edge of the rocks, the only living things in the solitude.
Godfrey Morgan | Jules Verne
British Dictionary definitions for guillemot
/ (ˈɡɪlɪˌmɒt) /
any northern oceanic diving bird of the genera Uria and Cepphus, having a black-and-white plumage and long narrow bill: family Alcidae (auks, etc), order Charadriiformes
Origin of guillemot
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