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Definition of Cepphus grylle
1. Noun. Northern Atlantic guillemot.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cepphus Grylle
Literary usage of Cepphus grylle
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)
"Cepphus grylle (p.). ce. Greater wing-coverts white to extreme base (sometimes
a little dusky along concealed median basal portion). ..."
2. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1889)
"No special comment is called for in the consideration of the bones of the hand
in Cepphus grylle; they all agree very closely with the corresponding bones ..."
3. A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1897)
"... of the summer and winter plumages, and in the significant fact that it lays
a couple of eggs instead of one. I. THE BLACK GUILLEMOT. Cepphus grylle. ..."