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sea-crows

sea-crows is the plural of sea-crow.

Meaning of sea-crow

Noun (1)

sea-crow (plural sea-crows)

  1. (regional) A gull.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:sea-crow.
  2. (regional) A chough (Pyrrhocorax spp.).
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:sea-crow.
  3. (regional) A cormorant (Phalacrocoracidae spp.).
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:sea-crow.

Noun (2)

sea-crow (plural sea-crows)

  1. (rare) A sapphirine gurnard, a fish of species Chelidonichthys lucerna (syn. Trigla hirundo).
    • [...] the Sea-Crow[, so called] from his Blackness.1722, Oppian, Oppian's Halieuticks of the Nature of Fishes and Fishing of the Ancients, page 229

Questions about sea-crows

What is sea-crows the plural of?
Sea-crows is the plural of sea-crow.

Words near sea-crows in the dictionary

  1. sea-coulters
  2. sea-cow
  3. sea-cows
  4. sea-crayfish
  5. sea-crow
  6. sea-crows
  7. sea-daisies
  8. sea-daisy
  9. sea-day
  10. sea-days
  11. sea-dog

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