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auks

auks is the plural of auk.

Meaning of auk

Noun

auk (plural auks)

  1. Any of several species of Arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae.
    • Further afield, these auks are also in dire straits: Norway has seen vertiginous crashes, with hundreds of thousands of adult puffins in the once-teeming colony of Røst struggling to fledge any chicks in recent years.2018 June 20, Louise Tickle, The Guardian
    Synonyms:
    alcid

Phrases with auks

Questions about auks

What is auks the plural of?
Auks is the plural of auk.

Words near auks in the dictionary

  1. Aukermans
  2. Aukers
  3. Auki
  4. auklet
  5. auklets
  6. auks
  7. auksinas
  8. AUKUS
  9. aukward
  10. aukwardly
  11. aukwardness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: auks (page history and authors); auk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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