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auk
[ awk ]
noun
- any of several usually black-and-white diving birds of the family Alcidae, of northern seas, having webbed feet and small wings.
auk
/ ɔːk /
noun
- See razorbill auk, great aukany of various diving birds of the family Alcidae of northern oceans having a heavy body, short tail, narrow wings, and a black-and-white plumage: order Charadriiformes See also great auk razorbill auk
- little auklittle aukdovekie a small short-billed auk, Plautus alle, abundant in Arctic regions
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The great auk is but a memory; the bittern booms more rarely in our eastern marshes; and now they tell me Brigadiers are extinct.
"You are already celebrated as the discoverer of the mammoth and the great auk," she persisted.
When that day comes, proprietary humbugs like Sanatogen will have become as extinct as the dodo and the great auk.
Paralyzed be th' boldness iv th' wolf, th' camel an' th' auk fled fr'm th' scene iv havoc, as is their wont.
Thirty years ago we knew as little of the ways of the ward boss as we knew of the megatherium or the great auk.
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