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Gannet

noun
1.
Large heavily built seabird with a long stout bill noted for its plunging dives for fish.





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"Gannet" Quotes from Famous Books



... with an easy ascent from the sea to a considerable height: This point, which lies in latitude 37 deg. 43', I named Woody Head. About eleven miles from this Head, in the direction of S.W. 1/2 W. lies a very small island, upon which we saw a great number of gannets, and which we therefore called Gannet Island. At noon, a high craggy point bore E.N.E. distant about a league and a half, to which I gave the name of Albetross Point: It lies in latitude 38 deg. 4' S. longitude 184 deg. 42' W.; and is distant seven leagues, in the direction of S. 17 W. from Woody Head. On the north side of this ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 13 • Robert Kerr


Words linked to "Gannet" :   family Sulidae, solan, solant goose, solan goose, Sula bassana, booby, pelecaniform seabird, Sulidae


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