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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A common gull (Larus argentatus) of the Northern Hemisphere having gray and white plumage with black wingtips.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of several gulls of large size, having the mantle pearl-blue, the primaries crossed with black and tipped with white, the bill yellow with a red spot on the gonys, and the feet yellow or flesh-colored.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A common, large seagull, Larus argentatus, having a white and gray body and a yellow bill with a red spot.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun large gull of the northern hemisphere

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