Murre

//mɝ// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any seabird of the genus Uria in the family Alcidae (the auks).

    "It may be that in one year alone, the Farallon murre population was reduced to the level at which it stood during the mid-1990s"

  2. 2
    black-and-white diving bird of northern seas wordnet

Etymology

Unknown, possibly imitative of the birds' call.

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