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Definition: Seagull |
SeagullNoun1. Mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "seagull" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1891. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Transportation | Flight simulators using computers linked by reflective-memory bus. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The gulls are seabirds in the family Laridae and subfamily Lari. They are closely related to the terns, and more distantly to the waders, auks and skimmers.
Gulls
Immature Californian Gull
Larus californicusScientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Charadriiformes Family†: Laridae
Genera Pagophila
Larus
Rissa
Creagus
Xema
Rhodostethia† see also: Tern, Noddy Most gulls belong to the large genus Larus.
They are in general medium to large birds, typically with grey or white, often with black markings on the head or wings. They have longish stout bills and webbed feet.
Most gulls, particularly in Larus, are ground nesting omnivores, which will take live food or scavenge opportunistically.
Apart from the kittiwakes, gulls are typically coastal or inland species, rarely venturing far out to sea. The large species take up to four years to attain full adult plumage, but two years is typical for small gulls.
The taxonomy of the Herring Gull is particularly complicated.
The species are:
- Charadriiformes
- Suborder Charadrii: The waders.
- Suborder Lari
- Family: Laridae
- Dolphin Gull, Larus scoresbii
- Pacific Gull, Larus pacificus
- Belcher's Gull, Larus belcheri
- Olrog's Gull, Larus atlanticus
- Black-tailed Gull, Larus crassirostris
- Grey Gull, Larus modestus
- Heermann's Gull, Larus heermanni
- White-eyed Gull, Larus leucophthalmus
- Sooty Gull, Larus hemprichii
- Common Gull or Mew Gull, Larus canus
- Audouin's Gull, Larus audouinii
- Ring-billed Gull, Larus delawarensis
- California Gull, Larus californicus
- Great Black-backed Gull, Larus marinus
- Kelp Gull, Larus dominicanus
- Glaucous-winged Gull, Larus glaucescens
- Western Gull, Larus occidentalis
- Yellow-footed Gull, Larus livens
- Glaucous Gull, Larus hyperboreus
- Iceland Gull, Larus glaucoides
- Thayer's Gull, Larus thayeri
- Herring Gull, Larus argentatus
- American Herring Gull, Larus smithsonianus
- Yellow-legged Gull, Larus michahelis
- Caspian Gull, Larus cachinnans
- East Siberian Herring Gull, Larus vegae
- Armenian Gull, Larus armenicus
- Slaty-backed Gull, Larus schistisagus
- Lesser Black-backed Gull, Larus fuscus
- Great Black-headed Gull, Larus ichthyaetus
- Brown-headed Gull, Larus brunnicephalus
- Grey-headed Gull, Larus cirrocephalus
- Hartlaub's Gull, Larus hartlaubii
- Silver Gull, Larus novaehollandiae
- Red-billed Gull, Larus scopulinus
- Black-billed Gull, Larus bulleri
- Brown-hooded Gull, Larus maculipennis
- Black-headed Gull Larus ridibundus
- Slender-billed Gull Larus genei
- Bonaparte's Gull, Larus philadelphia
- Saunders' Gull, Larus saundersi
- Andean Gull, Larus serranus
- Mediterranean Gull, Larus melanocephalus
- Relict Gull, Larus relictus
- Lava Gull, Larus fuliginosus
- Laughing Gull, Larus atricilla
- Franklin's Gull, Larus pipixcan
- Little Gull, Larus minutus
- Kittiwake or Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla
- Red-legged Kittiwake Rissa brevirostris
- Ivory Gull Pagophila eburnea
- Ross's Gull Rhodostethia rosea
- Sabine's Gull, Xema sabini
- Swallow-tailed Gull, Creagrus furcatus
- Family Sternidae (terns)
- Family Stercorariidae (skuas)
- Family Rhynchopidae (skimmers)
- Suborder Alcae The auks.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Gull."
Synonyms: SeagullSynonyms: gull (n), sea gull (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Seagull |
| Specialty definitions using "seagull": Kabibonokka. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973) The Seagull (1968) | |
Song Titles | Seagull (performing artist: Steeleye Span) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A seagull wading in the surf near the Edwin S. Taylor Fishing Pier. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | A seagull on a piling perch. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Seagull dining on remains of eels left in netting - part of fisheries bycatch. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Closeup of a large seagull - Larus glaucus. Plate VI, print 14. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Ships of the invasion force steaming out of the Guadalcanal-Tulagi area during the afternoon of 9 August 1942. Photographed from USS Chicago (CA-29), the view looks westward, with Guadalcanal island in the background. USS Crescent City (AP-40) is at the left. A Curtiss SOC "Seagull" floatplane is in the foreground, on Chicago's starboard catapult. Credit: NAVY. |  | Fires her after 8"/55 guns while bombarding a Japanese-held island in February 1942. This view has long been identified has a scene from the 24 February bombardment of Wake. However, it may have been taken on 1 February, during the bombardment of Wotje, in the Marshall Islands. Note Curtiss SOC "Seagull" floatplane in the foreground, with the cruiser's after stack and aircraft crane immediately to the right. Credit: NAVY. |
 | View on board, looking forward over the boat deck from the secondary conn, while the ship was at the New York Navy Yard after her last overhaul, 29 May 1942. Crude # "1" in white circle (center) marks the location of the 5"/25 loading practice machine. Other notable items include: boats and boat cradle in foreground; four Curtiss SOC "Seagull" floatplanes atop the catapults; crated food piled by the after smokestack; and USS Marblehead (CL-12) at left. Credit: NAVY. |  | Enters Havannah Harbor, Efate, New Hebrides, as seen from USS Columbia (CL-56) on 22 April 1943. Note the Curtiss SOC "Seagull" floatplane in the right foreground, and the worn paintwork on Montpelier's hull, forward and amidships, with apparently fresh paint further aft. Credit: NAVY. |
 | A U.S. Navy SOC "Seagull" floatplane flies over Wotje Atoll, during the attack on the Japanese airfield there by gunfire from USS Salt Lake City (CV-25) and USS Northampton (CA-26)) and fighters from USS Enterprise (CV-6), 1 February 1942. The original picture caption identifies the burning facilities as an ammunition dump and two fuel dumps. Credit: NAVY. |  | A Curtiss SOC "Seagull" scout-observation aircraft drops a message as it flies over USS Augusta (CA-31), during operations off North Africa in November-December 1942. Note the message capsule that has just been tossed out by the plane's observer. Credit: NAVY. |
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| "Seagull" by James O Commentary: "This guy's staring me down..." | "Seagull" by Jared Swafford Commentary: "Seagull in st. augustine beach florida." |
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 | Seagull caw. |
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| "Seagull" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.70% of the time. "Seagull" is used about 57 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 80.7% | 46 | 50,285 |
| Noun (proper) | 19.3% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 57 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Netherlands | Seagull Holding NV |
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| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "seagull": seagull-white. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "seagull"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pulëbardhë (gull, mew, sea mew). (various references) | |
Arabic | نورس طائر مائي, زمج الماء. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | чайка (gull). (various references) | |
Chinese | 海鸥. (various references) | |
Czech | racek (gull, mew). (various references) | |
Danish | måge. (various references) | |
Dutch | zeemeeuw, meeuw. (various references) | |
Esperanto | mevo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | másafuglur. (various references) | |
Finnish | Seagull-lentosimulaattori, lokki (gull, sea-gull). (various references) | |
French | mouette. (various references) | |
Frisian | seefûgel, miuw, kobbe, kob. (various references) | |
German | Möwe (gull). (various references) | |
Greek | γλάρος (gull), απομιμητής τύπου Seagull. (various references) | |
Hebrew | שחף (gull, kittiwake, tern). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sirály (cob, gull, mew, sea gull, sea mew). (various references) | |
Italian | gabbiano (gull, kittiwake, mew). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鴎 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かもめ. (various references) | |
Korean | 갈매기. (various references) | |
Mohawk | tsyowatstakawe. (various references) | |
Norwegian | måke (gull). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eagullsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gaivota (gull, mew, saddleback, sea-mew). (various references) | |
Russian | чайка (chaika, gull, mew, sea gull, sea mew, sea-gull). (various references) | |
Scottish | faoileann, faoileag (nf. g.d. -eig; pl.+an. See <A HREF="mf05.html#faoileann">faoileann</A>). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | galeb (gull, mew, peewit). (various references) | |
Spanish | gaviota (gull, mew, sea mew). (various references) | |
Sranan | fisman (fisherman). (various references) | |
Swedish | mås (gull), fiskmås (mew, sea mew). (various references) | |
Thai | นกนางนวล (gull). (various references) | |
Turkish | martı (gull, mew, puffin, sea mew, seamew). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | чайка (gull, Lapwing, mew, peewit, pewit). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "seagull": seagulls. (additional references) | |
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"Seagull" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Etajul, Osengell, seagul, seaguls, seegul, Sengul, Shagolle, Sosgeul, stagull. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sullage, ullages. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-l-l-s-u" | |
-1 letter: gallus, legals, ullage. | |
-2 letters: agues, gales, galls, glues, gules, gulls, legal, luges, usage. | |
-3 letters: ages, ague, ales, alls, egal, ells, gaes, gale, gall, gals, gels, glue, gull, guls, lags, lase, leal, leas, legs, lues, luge, lugs, sage, sale, sall, saul, seal, sell, slag, slue, slug. | |
-4 letters: age, ale, all, als, eau, ell, els, gae. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-l-l-s-u" | |
+1 letter: gallused, galluses, seagulls, sullages. | |
+2 letters: aiguilles, glandules, guerillas. | |
+3 letters: colleagues, flagellums, gallinules, gesturally, guerrillas, pellagrous, pupillages, seguidilla, spurgalled. | |
+4 letters: aspergillum, aspergillus, collagenous, gladioluses, glamourless, langlaufers, legislature, maquillages, seguidillas. | |
+5 letters: aiguillettes, argillaceous, aspergillums, gallinaceous, gelatinously, gracefullest, gratefullest, legislatures, metallurgies, metallurgist, museological, oleaginously. | |
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