murre

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murre

  • /mɜː/ UK
  • /mɝ/ US

Sounds like murr, myrrh · Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)

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Unknown, possibly imitative of the birds' call.

noun murres

  1. Any seabird of the genus Uria in the family Alcidae (the auks). It may be that in one year alone, the Farallon murre population was reduced to the level at which it stood during the mid-1990s

    Similar: guillemot

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noun seabird of the genus Uria in the auk family

한국어바다오리 badaori
Portuguêsairo
Русскийка́йра kájra

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@misc{murre_2026,
  title = {murre},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/murre},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}