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seacrow

seacrow 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 seacrow

pluralseacrows

Questions about seacrow

What is seacrow the alternative form of?
Seacrow is the alternative form of sea-crow.

Words near seacrow in the dictionary

  1. seacows
  2. seacraft
  3. seacrafts
  4. seacrafty
  5. Seacroft
  6. seacrow
  7. seacrows
  8. seaculture
  9. seacunnies
  10. seacunny
  11. seacuterie

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Adapted from Wiktionary: seacrow (page history and authors); sea-crow (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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