shearwater

English

a great shearwater, Puffinus gravis

Alternative forms

sheerwater

Etymology

shear +‎ water

Noun

shearwater (plural shearwaters)

Any of various long-winged pelagic seabirds in the genera Calonectris or Puffinus, of the family Procellariidae, that breed on islands and coastal cliffs.

Synonyms

haglet

Translations

seabird

Catalan: baldriga f
Dutch: pijlstormvogel m
Faroese: skrápur m
Finnish: liitäjä
French: puffin (fr) m
Galician: pardela f
German: Sturmtaucher (de) m
Greek:
Ancient: αἴθυια f (aíthuia)

Greenlandic: qaqullunnaq (Puffinus gravis)
Manx: scraayl m
Norman: gode f
Polish: burzyk m
Portuguese: cagarra f, pardela (pt) f
Spanish: pardela f
Ukrainian: буревісник (uk) m (burevisnyk)

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