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sea swallows

sea swallows is the plural of sea swallow.

Meaning of sea swallow

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.

Questions about sea swallows

What is sea swallows the plural of?
Sea swallows is the plural of sea swallow.

Words near sea swallows in the dictionary

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

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