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Tern   Listen
adjective
Tern  adj.  Threefold; triple; consisting of three; ternate.
Tern flowers (Bot.), flowers growing three and three together.
Tern leaves (Bot.), leaves arranged in threes, or three by three, or having three in each whorl or set.
Tern peduncles (Bot.), three peduncles growing together from the same axis.
Tern schooner (Naut.), a three-masted schooner.





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... a wide range overseas in the temperate areas of the North Atlantic. It is recorded from Ulster County, New York, New Hampshire, Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia and Florida. It was about of the size of the common tern. ...
— Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday


Words linked to "Tern" :   subfamily Sterninae, sea swallow, larid, Sterninae, Sterna hirundo


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