sea swallow

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sea swallow

noun sea swallows

UK The common tern (Sterna hirundo). There was a light breeze off the land; it was scarcely strong enough to lift the heavy fog which lay over the skerries and the naked cliffs, from which the scared sea-gulls flew and hovered around us with their hoarse cry; the sea-swallows uttered their ringing "Tree, tree," and the oyster-catchers
The storm petrel.
A mollusc of genus Glaucus.

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@misc{sea_swallow_2026,
  title = {sea swallow},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sea%20swallow},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}