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sea swallow

sea swallow noun: the common tern (Sterna hirundo).

Noun

sea swallow (plural sea swallows)

  1. (UK) The common tern (Sterna hirundo).
    • There was a light breeze off the land; it was scarcely strong enough to lift the heavy fog which lay over the skerries and the naked cliffs, from which the scared sea-gulls flew and hovered around us with their hoarse cry; the sea-swallows uttered their ringing "Tree, tree," and the oyster-catchers...1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 181
  2. The storm petrel.
  3. A mollusc of genus Glaucus.

Forms of sea swallow

pluralsea swallows

Questions about sea swallow

What does sea swallow mean?
Sea swallow means the common tern (Sterna hirundo).
What part of speech is sea swallow?
Sea swallow is a noun.
What is the plural of sea swallow?
The plural of sea swallow is sea swallows.

Words near sea swallow in the dictionary

  1. sea sun
  2. sea sunflower
  3. sea sunflowers
  4. sea suns
  5. sea surface
  6. sea swallow
  7. sea swallows
  8. sea sweep
  9. sea sweeps
  10. sea swine
  11. sea swines

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