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Fulmar   Listen
noun
Fulmar  n.  (Zool.) One of several species of sea birds, of the family Procellariidae, 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).






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"Fulmar" Quotes from Famous Books



... will long be remembered by us, for in addition to the delight we felt at again moving northward, and the charm of a bright evening with a gentle, fair wind and smooth water, allowing us to glide by hundreds of fulmar and shearwater sitting on the water, scarcely disturbed by our passage, the moon was paled by the brightest exhibition of the aurora we saw while in northern waters. Its sudden darts into new quarters of the heavens, its tumultuous waves and gentle undulations, now ...
— Bowdoin Boys in Labrador • Jonathan Prince (Jr.) Cilley

... and cloud shall fail not from the face of it, Stinging, ringing spindrift, nor the fulmar flying free; And the ships shall go abroad To the Glory of the Lord Who heard the silly sailor-folk and gave them ...
— Verses 1889-1896 • Rudyard Kipling



Words linked to "Fulmar" :   giant fulmar, petrel, genus Fulmarus, Fulmarus glacialis



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