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calloos

calloos is the plural of calloo.

Meaning of calloo

Noun

calloo (plural calloos)

  1. (Scotland) The long-tailed duck, Clangula hyemalis, an Arctic sea duck.
    • This is how the luckless feel / how the calloos [translating allit] think— / like hard snow under a ridge / like water in a deep well.1989, Elias Lönnrot, translated by Keith Bosley, The Kalevala, section IV

Questions about calloos

What is calloos the plural of?
Calloos is the plural of calloo.

Words near calloos in the dictionary

  1. callivances
  2. calloc
  3. callogenesis
  4. callogenic
  5. calloo
  6. calloos
  7. callop
  8. callops
  9. callorhinchid
  10. callorhinchids
  11. callorhynchid

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