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Sea swallow   /si swˈɑloʊ/   Listen
Sea swallow

noun
1.
Common tern of Eurasia and America having white black and grey plumage.  Synonym: Sterna hirundo.





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"Sea swallow" Quotes from Famous Books



... hit. The duck out here don't seem to mind small shot at a hundred or two hundred yards more than they do at home! Pretty white herons sailed round occasionally without fear, and sometimes I could positively hardly see for grey-green dragon flies hovering in front; there was one tern, or sea swallow—my favourite bird; but how came it do you think, ...
— From Edinburgh to India & Burmah • William G. Burn Murdoch


Words linked to "Sea swallow" :   genus Sterna, Sterna, tern


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