Definition of Diomedea exulans

1. Noun. Very large albatross; white with wide black wings.

Exact synonyms: Wandering Albatross
Generic synonyms: Albatross, Mollymawk
Group relationships: Genus Diomedea

Lexicographical Neighbors of Diomedea Exulans

Dinocerata
Dinoflagellata
Dinornis giganteus
Dinornithidae
Dinornithiformes
Diocletian
Dioctophyma
Dioctophyma renale
Diodon holocanthus
Diodon hystrix
Diodontidae
Diodora apertura
Diogenean
Diogenes
Diogenes cup
Diomedea exulans (current term)
Diomedea nigripes
Diomedeidae
Diomedes
Dion
Dionaea muscipula
Dione
Dionean
Dionysia
Dionysiac
Dionysian
Dionysius
Dionysius the Elder
Dionysos
Dionysus

Literary usage of Diomedea exulans

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook to the Birds of Australia by John Gould (1865)
"The two or three species known of this form frequent the seas on both sides of the equator. Sp. 617. Diomedea exulans, Linn. WANDERING ALBATROS. ..."

2. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"... them by other names, for instance Diomedea exulans, Linn. is the wandering albatross. D. spadicea, ig the green-bill or Nelly of sailors. ..."

3. Check-list of North American Birds by American Ornithologists' Union (1910)
"Diomedea exulans LINN.EUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, Good Hope region.) Diomedea exulans LINN.EUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 132. (Cape of Good Hope region. ..."

4. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology (1896)
"Diomedea exulans. The Man of War Bird, Albin, Birds, iii. p. 76, pi. ... Diomedea exulans, Linn. Syst. Nat. ip 214 (1766) ; Gm. Syst. Hut. ..."

5. Catalogue of the Hunterian Collection in the Museum of the Royal College of by Museum, Royal College of Surgeons in London (1831)
"Diomedea exulans. 1393. The skull of an Albatross. Diomedea exulans. 1394. ... Diomedea exulans. Presented by Sir William Blizard. 1811. 1396. ..."

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