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kittiewake

kittiewake is the alternative form of kittiwake.

Meaning of kittiwake

Noun

kittiwake (plural kittiwakes or kittiwake)

  1. Either of two small gulls in the genus Rissa of the family Laridae that nest in colonies on sea cliffs and spend the winter on the open ocean.
  2. (Ireland, UK) the black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla), no other kittiwake being found in Europe.

Forms of kittiewake

pluralkittiewakes

Questions about kittiewake

What is kittiewake the alternative form of?
Kittiewake is the alternative form of kittiwake.

Words near kittiewake in the dictionary

  1. Kitti's hog-nosed bats
  2. Kittian
  3. Kittians
  4. kittie
  5. kitties
  6. kittiewake
  7. kittiewakes
  8. Kittilä
  9. kitting
  10. kitting out
  11. Kittinger

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kittiewake (page history and authors); kittiwake (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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