seafowl

American  

[see-foul] / ˈsiˌfaʊl /

noun

plural

seafowls,

plural

seafowl

1. seabird.

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Etymology

Origin of seafowl

First recorded in 1300–50, seafowl is from the Middle English word seafoule. See sea, fowl

Example Sentences

The Seabirds Count, a census of the UK and Ireland's main seafowl species, found that herring gulls were one of 11 groups that saw a drop in their population between 2002 and 2021.

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2023

But the seafowl is gone to her nest, The beast is laid down in his lair; Even here is a season of rest, And I to my cabin repair.

From The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language by Palgrave, Francis Turner

The sun is couched, the seafowl gone to rest,    And the wild storm hath somewhere found a nest.

From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.

Lightly and daintily she rode upon the waters, like some giant seafowl, spreading one white pinion after another in preparation for her flight.

From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

These rocks are the haunts of seafowl, whose clang, though this is not their season, we heard at a distance.

From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel