ivory gull

ivory gull
noun
white Arctic gull; migrates as far south as England and New Brunswick
Syn: ↑Pagophila eburnea
Hypernyms: ↑gull, ↑seagull, ↑sea gull
Member Holonyms: ↑Pagophila, ↑genus Pagophila

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noun
: a gull (Pagophila eburnea) that is circumpolar in distribution and migrates as far south as New Brunswick and England

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a white, arctic gull, Pagophila eburnea.
[1915-20]

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ivory gull,
a small, black-legged, all-white gull of arctic regions.

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