Larus

noun

type genus of the Laridae

• Syn: ↑genus Larus

• Hypernyms: ↑bird genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Laridae, ↑family Laridae

• Member Meronyms:

↑mew, ↑mew gull, ↑sea mew, ↑Larus canus, ↑black-backed gull, ↑great black-backed gull, ↑cob, ↑Larus marinus, ↑herring gull, ↑Larus argentatus, ↑laughing gull, ↑blackcap, ↑pewit, ↑pewit gull, ↑Larus ridibundus

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\\ˈla(a)rəs\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Late Latin, gull, from Greek laros; perhaps akin to Latin lamentum lament — more at lament

: a large cosmopolitan genus of gulls comprising many of the better-known gulls and being the type of the family Laridae — see bonaparte's gull, glaucous gull, herring gull, laughing gull

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Larus /läˈ or lāˈrəs/

noun

The principal genus of the gull family (Laridae /larˈi-dē/)

ORIGIN: L, from Gr laros a bird, prob a gull

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larˈine adjective

larˈoid adjective