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loomeries

loomeries is the plural of loomery.

Meaning of loomery

Noun

loomery (plural loomeries)

  1. A breeding colony of guillemots (seabirds of the genus Uria) or other auks, typically densely packed on a sea cliff; the cliff or ledges on which such seabirds breed.
    • There is a very extensive loomery at Cape Hay; we regret the circumstances which prevent our levying a tax upon it.1859, Francis Leopold McClintock, The Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas, London: John Murray, page 147
    Synonyms:
    colony, seabird city

Questions about loomeries

What is loomeries the plural of?
Loomeries is the plural of loomery.

Words near loomeries in the dictionary

  1. loomed
  2. loomed ahead
  3. loomed large
  4. Loomer
  5. Loomered
  6. loomeries
  7. Loomering
  8. Loomers
  9. loomery
  10. Loomes
  11. Loomeses

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