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Fulmarus
(gcide) | Fulmarus \Fulmarus\ n.
A genus of birds including many of the fulmars.
Syn: genus Fulmarus.
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fulmarus
(wn) | Fulmarus
n 1: fulmars [syn: Fulmarus, genus Fulmarus] |
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Fulmarus
(gcide) | Fulmarus \Fulmarus\ n.
A genus of birds including many of the fulmars.
Syn: genus Fulmarus.
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Fulmarus glacialis
(gcide) | Fulmar \Ful"mar\ (f[u^]lm[aum]r), n. [Icel. f[=u]lm[=a]r. See
foul, and Man a gull.] (Zool.)
One of several species of sea birds, of the family
Procellariid[ae], allied to the albatrosses and petrels.
Among the well-known species are the arctic fulmar
(Fulmarus glacialis) (called also fulmar petrel,
malduck, and mollemock), and the giant fulmar ({Ossifraga
gigantea}).
[1913 Webster]Noddy \Nod"dy\, n.; pl. Noddies. [Prob. fr. nod to incline the
head, either as in assent, or from drowsiness.]
1. A simpleton; a fool. --L'Estrange.
Syn: tomnoddy.
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2. (Zool.)
(a) Any tern of the genus Anous, as Anous stolidus.
(b) The arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis). Sometimes
also applied to other sea birds.
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3. An old game at cards. --Halliwell.
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4. A small two-wheeled one-horse vehicle.
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5. An inverted pendulum consisting of a short vertical flat
spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top; --
used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal
vibrations of a body to which it is attached.
[1913 Webster]Mollemoke \Mol"le*moke`\, n. [Sw. mallemucke the stormy petrel.]
(Zool.)
Any one of several species of large pelagic petrels and
fulmars, as Fulmarus glacialis, of the North Atlantic, and
several species of Aestrelata, of the Southern Ocean. See
Fulmar. [Written also mollymawk, malmock, mollemock,
mallemocke, etc.]
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fulmarus glacialis
(wn) | Fulmarus glacialis
n 1: heavy short-tailed oceanic bird of polar regions [syn:
fulmar, fulmar petrel, Fulmarus glacialis] |
genus fulmarus
(wn) | genus Fulmarus
n 1: fulmars [syn: Fulmarus, genus Fulmarus] |
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