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Gannet

noun
1.
Large heavily built seabird with a long stout bill noted for its plunging dives for fish.





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"Gannet" Quotes from Famous Books



... swelling out of the sea, which had a look of almost complete solitude; and at length Ailsa Craig began faintly to show itself, high above the horizon, through the thick atmosphere. We passed this lonely rock, about which flocks of sea-birds, the solan goose, and the gannet, on long white wings with jetty tips, were continually wheeling, and with a glass we could discern them sitting by thousands on the shelves of the rock, where they breed. The upper part of Ailsa, above the cliffs, ...
— Letters of a Traveller - Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America • William Cullen Bryant


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


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