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short-tailed shearwater

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short-tailed shearwater

  [shawrt-teyld] .
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–noun
See under mutton bird.

mutton bird

 
–noun
any of several long-winged seabirds, often used as food, esp. Puffinus tenuirostris (short-tailed shearwater) of Australia and Puffinus griseus (sooty shearwater), which breeds in the Southern Hemisphere and winters in the Northern Hemisphere.
Also, mutton-bird.

Origin:
1840–50
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