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murre en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /mɜː/ (UK)
• /mɝ/ (US)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Unknown, possibly imitative of the birds' call.

Meanings

1. Any seabird of the genus Uria in the family Alcidae (the auks).
   • It may be that in one year alone, the Farallon murre population was reduced to the level at which it stood during the mid-1990s 1990, David G. Ainley, Seabirds of the Farallon Islands: Ecology, Dynamics, and Structure of an Upwelling-System Community, page 252:
   • 2000, Susan Allport, The Primal Feast: Food, Sex, Foraging, and Love, 2003, paperback, page 52, Staking out a spot involves not only the appropriate level of murre aggression (some murres are so aggressive that they throw their mates off the ledge) but, even more fundamentally, the ability to find food efficiently.
   • 1997, Robert Wayne Campbell, Neil K. Dawe, The Birds of British Columbia, Volume 2: Nonpasserines: Diurnal birds of prey through woodpeckers, page 296, About 2,800 pairs of Common Murres breed in the province, most of which are in the Scott Islands off northwestern Vancouver Island.

Forms

Deriveds

murrelet · common murre · thick-billed murre

Relateds

merganser · razorbill

Synonyms

guillemot (any bird of genus Uria)

Translations (18)

iu ᐊᒃᐸ (seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family) · fi kiisla (seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family) · ru ка́йра (seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family) · ckt ӄэруӄэр (seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family) · cs alkoun (seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family) · pl nurzyk (seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family) · nrf dgillemot (seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family) · ast calón (seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family) · ko 바다오리 (seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family) · hu lumma (seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family) · ast pitorru (seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family) · fo lomviga (seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family) · ast aráu (seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family) · ckt ӄэрут (seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family) · nrf âne dé mé (seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family) · nb lomvi (seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family) · fo lomvigi (seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family) · pt airo (seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family)