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auklet

American

[awk-lit] / ˈɔk lɪt /

noun

any of several small auks of the coasts of the North Pacific, as Aethia cristatella crested auklet, having a crest of recurved plumes.

auklet British

/ ˈɔːklɪt /

noun

any of various small auks of the genera Aethia and Ptychoramphus

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Etymology

Origin of auklet

First recorded in 1885–90; auk + -let

Example Sentences

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In late 2014, thousands of starved Cassin's auklet seabirds began to wash ashore in Washington and Oregon.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 31, 2019

From the Space Needle to the rhinoceros auklet — the symbols of our region’s wild and civilized places.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 8, 2016

Then a Cassin’s auklet flitted by along the surface of the slate-gray sea, and I perked up.

From New York Times • May 19, 2016

The odor is not only pleasant, but so powerful that you can smell an auklet colony from almost a mile away.

From Time Magazine Archive

The auklet, the puffin and the kingfishers burrow into the friendly and solid earth.

From The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations by Hornaday, William Temple

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