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- noun Plural form of
mollymawk .
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South Jason, an island about four miles long, supports populations of black-browed albatross (also known as mollymawks), endangered rockhopper penguin, Magellanic penguin, and prions (a small white seabird similar to a petrel).
Nikolas Kozloff: WikiLeaks: Governments Fear Environmentalists Nikolas Kozloff 2011
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South Jason, an island about four miles long, supports populations of black-browed albatross (also known as mollymawks), endangered rockhopper penguin, Magellanic penguin, and prions (a small white seabird similar to a petrel).
Nikolas Kozloff: WikiLeaks: Governments Fear Environmentalists Nikolas Kozloff 2011
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South Jason, an island about four miles long, supports populations of black-browed albatross (also known as mollymawks), endangered rockhopper penguin, Magellanic penguin, and prions (a small white seabird similar to a petrel).
Nikolas Kozloff: WikiLeaks: Governments Fear Environmentalists Nikolas Kozloff 2011
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South Jason, an island about four miles long, supports populations of black-browed albatross (also known as mollymawks), endangered rockhopper penguin, Magellanic penguin, and prions (a small white seabird similar to a petrel).
Nikolas Kozloff: WikiLeaks: Governments Fear Environmentalists Nikolas Kozloff 2011
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In addition to the albatross, several nests of which were scattered about the open ground on the plateau to the number of a hundred or more, there were lots of mollymawks and terns, or "sea swallows."
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An 'the mollymawks an' flyin'-fish an 'stately albatross,
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-07 Various 1898
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We now have a milder breeze from the SOFT N.E., after a BITTER S.W., with Cape pigeons and mollymawks (a small albatross), not to compare with our gulls.
Letters from the Cape Lucie Duff Gordon 1845
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