solan

How to use solan in a sentence

• Here the solan-goose, the eider-duck, and innumerable varieties of gulls and other sea-fowl, build their nests and breed.

  The Land of Thor | J. Ross Browne

• The splendid solan-goose, sora, wild ducks, and wild turkey were found in 1607 in even greater plenty than at the present day.

  The Birth of the Nation | Mrs. Roger A. Pryor

• Gannet, gan′et, n. a web-footed fowl found in the northern seas, the best-known of which is the solan goose.

  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) | Various

• The Sula bassana, or solan goose: a large sea bird of the family Pelecanidæ, common on the Scottish coasts.

  The Sailor's Word-Book | William Henry Smyth

• The flesh of the solan goose is deprived in a similar manner of its naturally rank and fishy flavour.

  Bible Animals; | J. G. Wood