mandt's guillemot

mandt's guillemot
\\ˈmänts-\ noun
Usage: usually capitalized M
Etymology: after Martin Wilhelm von Mandt died 1858 German physician and naturalist
: a guillemot that constitutes the northern subspecies (Cepphus grylle mandtii) of the black guillemot of the north Atlantic

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Mandt's guillemot «mahnts»,
a variety of guillemot that lives in the arctic regions of America.
[< M. W. von Mandt, a German naturalist of the 1800's]

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