SEAGULL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seagull mean? 

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

1. mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEAGULL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

gull; sea gull; seagull

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

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

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

Larus canus; mew; mew gull; sea mew (the common gull of Eurasia and northeastern North America)

black-backed gull; cob; great black-backed gull; Larus marinus (white gull having a black back and wings)

herring gull; Larus argentatus (large gull of the northern hemisphere)

blackcap; Larus ridibundus; laughing gull; pewit; pewit gull (small black-headed European gull)

ivory gull; Pagophila eburnea (white Arctic gull; migrates as far south as England and New Brunswick)

kittiwake (small pearl-grey gull of northern regions; nests on cliffs and has a rudimentary hind toe)

 Context examples 

C. lari is associated in recurrent gastroenteritis in children, causes septicemia and enteritis in immunodeficient patients and is commensal in healthy seagulls, birds, mussels and oysters.

(Campylobacter lari, NCI Thesaurus)