Ternery

//tɜːnəɹi// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A colony of terns.

    "Altogether Harvie-Brown has visited a great many Hebridean terneries, and paid special attention to their inhabitants."

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"Altogether Harvie-Brown has visited a great many Hebridean terneries, and paid special attention to their inhabitants."

Etymology

From tern + -ery.

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