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Gannet   Listen
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Gannet  n.  (Zool.) One of several species of sea birds of the genus Sula, allied to the pelicans. Note: The common gannet of Europe and America (Sula bassana), is also called solan goose, chandel goose, and gentleman. In Florida the wood ibis is commonly called gannet.
Booby gannet. See Sula.






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"Gannet" Quotes from Famous Books



... a gannet; and the clouds remained so fixed in the west that I had little doubt of our being near the land. The people, after taking their allowance of water for supper, amused themselves with conversing on the probability of what ...
— A Voyage to the South Sea • William Bligh

... M. we drew near to Gannet Rocks. These are three in number, all high, one quite small and conical, a second somewhat larger, the third, which is the home of gannets, several acres in extent. They were all ruddy, being of red sandstone; and the smallest, in that warm light, was actual carmine. The largest ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 • Various



Words linked to "Gannet" :   Sulidae, family Sulidae, booby, solant goose, solan goose, solan, Sula bassana



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