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garefowl

garefowl noun: the great auk.

Noun

garefowl (plural garefowls)

  1. The great auk.
    • The Faroese men were able to catch more than a dozen gare-fowl along with 200 guillemots and numerous gannets, collecting them from rocks which the Icelanders were not brave enough to climb.2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 81
  2. (archaic, rare) The razorbill

garefowl meaning in Tamil

garefowl in Tamil

துடுப்புகள் போன்ற சிறகுளையுடைய கடற்பறவை

Forms of garefowl

pluralgarefowls
alternative formgairfowl
alternative formgare-fowl
alternative formgurfel

Origin of garefowl

From Icelandic geirfugl, from Old Norse geirfugl (“great auk”), related to Swedish garfågel, Danish geirfugl, Faroese geirfuglur, gorfuglur, French gorfou.

Questions about garefowl

What does garefowl mean?
Garefowl means the great auk.
What is garefowl in Tamil?
Garefowl in Tamil is துடுப்புகள் போன்ற சிறகுளையுடைய கடற்பறவை. See Garefowl meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is garefowl?
Garefowl is a noun.
What is the plural of garefowl?
The plural of garefowl is garefowls.

Words near garefowl in the dictionary

  1. gare
  2. Gare Loch
  3. Gared
  4. garee
  5. garees
  6. garefowl
  7. garefowls
  8. Gareis-Mason syndrome
  9. Garelochhead
  10. Garema
  11. Garen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: garefowl (page history and authors); garefowl (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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