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great auk
noun
- a large, flightless auk, Pinguinus impennis, of rocky islands off North Atlantic coasts: extinct since 1844.
great auk
noun
- a large flightless auk, Pinguinus impennis, extinct since the middle of the 19th century
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Word History and Origins
Origin of great auk1
First recorded in 1820–30
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Example Sentences
The great auk is but a memory; the bittern booms more rarely in our eastern marshes; and now they tell me Brigadiers are extinct.
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"You are already celebrated as the discoverer of the mammoth and the great auk," she persisted.
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When that day comes, proprietary humbugs like Sanatogen will have become as extinct as the dodo and the great auk.
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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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Great auk eggs is wuth twenty-one thousand and six hundred dollars a dozen!'
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