AUK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does auk mean? 

• AUK (noun)
  The noun AUK has 1 sense:

1. black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas

  Familiarity information: AUK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas

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Nouns denoting animals

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

sea bird; seabird; seafowl (a bird that frequents coastal waters and the open ocean: gulls; pelicans; gannets; cormorants; albatrosses; petrels; etc.)

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

auklet (any of several small auks of the northern Pacific coasts)

Alca torda; razor-billed auk; razorbill (black-and-white northern Atlantic auk having a compressed sharp-edged bill)

dovekie; little auk; Plautus alle (small short-billed auk abundant in Arctic regions)

great auk; Pinguinus impennis (large flightless auk of rocky islands off northern Atlantic coasts; extinct)

guillemot (small black or brown speckled auks of northern seas)

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

Alcidae; family Alcidae (web-footed diving seabirds of northern seas: auks; puffins; guillemots; murres; etc.)