Definition of Lunda cirrhata

1. Noun. Northern Pacific puffin having a large yellow plume over each eye.

Exact synonyms: Tufted Puffin
Generic synonyms: Puffin
Group relationships: Genus Lunda, Lunda

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lunda Cirrhata

Lulworth skipper
Lulworth skippers
Lumasaaba
Lumpenus
Lumpenus lumpretaeformis
Lumumbist
Lumumbists
Luna
Luna-Ishak stain
Lunaria
Lunaria annua
Lunarian
Lunarians
Lund
Lunda
Lunda cirrhata (current term)
Lunfardo
Lungwa
Lunt
Lunyo virus
Luo
Luo orutu
Luoravetlan
Luorawetlan
Luoyang
Lupercalia
Lupercalian
Lupinus
Lupinus albus
Lupinus arboreus

Literary usage of Lunda cirrhata

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

1. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1919)
"Range.—Coasts and islands of northern Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea, from Lower California to northern Japan. (Monotypic.) Lunda cirrhata (Pallas). ..."

2. The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea: with notices of by Francis Henry Hill Guillemard (1889)
"(Lunda cirrhata.) the water not a single leaf was stirring,—not a sound was to be heard. Before us lay the peaks of dazzling snow, and it seemed as though ..."

3. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1899)
"Lunda cirrhata. Tufted Puffin. A single individual of this species came flying ... Seven adult specimens of Lunda cirrhata are in the Stanford University ..."

4. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1890)
"I have found the latter number in a specimen of Lunda cirrhata. 7. Those in which the sternum, if notched, is 1-notched on either side, though the forms ..."

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