TERN

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("tern" is a kind of...):

larid (long-winged web-footed aquatic bird of the gull family)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tern"):

sea swallow; Sterna hirundo (common tern of Eurasia and America having white black and grey plumage)

Holonyms ("tern" is a member of...):

Sterninae; subfamily Sterninae (terns)

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