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sea crow

sea crow is the alternative form 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

Forms of sea crow

pluralsea crows

Questions about sea crow

What is sea crow the alternative form of?
Sea crow is the alternative form of sea-crow.

Words near sea crow in the dictionary

  1. sea cow
  2. sea cows
  3. sea cradle
  4. sea cradles
  5. sea crayfish
  6. sea crow
  7. sea crows
  8. sea cucumber
  9. sea cucumbers
  10. sea dace
  11. sea daces

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