Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A family of long-winged, web-footed swimming birds, with a small free hind toe, and pervious lateral non-tubular nostrils, belonging to the order Longipennes and suborder Gaviæ; the gull family.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun The natural family of birds including the gulls and terns; the gull family.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A taxonomic
family within theorder Charadriiformes —gulls ,terns andskimmers .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun gull family: gulls and terns
Etymologies
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Larus + -idae
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Examples
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Instead, bits and pieces of plastic and metal and teased glass flew in all directions as the synthetic Laridae shattered into a hundred or more pieces.
The Mocking Program Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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There were two species of Laridae, neither of which I had seen before, several small Tringae, the very long red shanked bird, Hematopus? the metallic Tantalus, common, jack-snipe, and hosts of Budytes, which were busily employed flying and flitting about after insects.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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