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shearwater en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der. Proto-Germanic *skeraną Proto-West Germanic *skeran Old English sċieran Middle English scheren English shear Proto-Indo-European *wed- Proto-Indo-European *-r̥ Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ Proto-Germanic *watōr Proto-West Germanic *watar Old English wæter Middle English water English water English shearwater From shear + water.

Meanings

1. Any of the long-winged pelagic seabirds of the family Procellariidae in genera Puffinus, Ardenna, and Calonectris, that breed on islands and coastal cliffs.
   • At first I would not eat a frigate bird, a booby or a shearwater, but after a few months on the island I tried one broiled over coconut-shell coals, and I have never since missed an opportunity for such a feast. 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 53:
2. (broadly) Any of the entire family Procellariidae, including certain of the petrels.

Forms

Deriveds

Newell's shearwater · Cape Verde shearwater · Yelkouan shearwater · Christmas shearwater · little shearwater · Hawaiian shearwater · Heinroth's shearwater · Buller's shearwater · flesh-footed shearwater · dusky shearwater · lava shearwater · Baillon's shearwater · yelkouan shearwater · Balearic shearwater · fluttering shearwater · great shearwater · Boyd's shearwater · wedge-tailed shearwater · Scopoli's shearwater · Galápagos shearwater · Bryan's shearwater · Manx shearwater · sooty shearwater · Audubon's shearwater · Barolo shearwater · Macronesian shearwater · subantarctic shearwater · Hutton's shearwater · Persian shearwater · Mediterranean shearwater · pink-footed shearwater · Cory's shearwater · Bannerman's shearwater · short-tailed shearwater · streaked shearwater · Townsend's shearwater · black-vented shearwater · tropical shearwater · Olson's shearwater

Synonyms

haglet

Translations (29)

gv scraayl (seabird) · gl pardela (seabird) · eo pufino (seabird) · ja ミズナギドリ (seabird) · fi liitäjä (seabird) · ga cánóg (seabird) · tr yelkovan (seabird) · ast pardiella (seabird) · fr puffin (seabird) · grc αἴθυια (seabird) · pt cagarra (seabird) · ca baldriga (seabird) · de Sturmtaucher (seabird) · kl qaqullunnaq (seabird) · ca virot (Balears) (seabird) · cy gwylan y graig (seabird) · fo skrápur (seabird) · ko 슴새 (seabird) · uk буревісник (seabird) · pt pardela (seabird) · ota یل قوغان (seabird) · hu vészmadár (seabird) · bg буревестник (seabird) · pl burzyk (seabird) · cy adar drycin (seabird) · es pardela (seabird) · nl pijlstormvogel (seabird) · ja 水薙鳥 (seabird) · nrf gode (seabird)