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Definition of Albatrosses
1. albatross [n] - See also: albatross
Lexicographical Neighbors of Albatrosses
Literary usage of Albatrosses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Keys to the Species and by Frank Michler Chapman (1895)
"albatrosses. The albatrosses, numbering eight or ton species, are confined chiefly
to the seas of tho southern hemisphere. They are eminently pelagic birds, ..."
2. North American Birds Eggs by Chester Albert Reed (1904)
"... albatrosses are the largest of the sea birds and have an enormous expanse of
wing, the Wandering Albatross, the largest of the family, ..."
3. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences (1920)
"A Review of the albatrosses, Petrels, and Diving Petrels. By Leverett Mills Loomis.
Plates 1-17. (Issued Pages 189-258. XIII. Field Notes on the Land Birds ..."
4. The Bird Book: Illustrating in Natural Colors More Than Seven Hundred North by Chester Albert Reed (1914)
"albatrosses. Family DIOMEDEIDAE albatrosses are the largest of the sea birds and
have an enormous expanse of wing, the Wandering Albatross, the largest of ..."
5. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Keys to the Species, and by Frank Michler Chapman (1895)
"The albatrosses, numbering eight or ten species, are confined chiefly to the seas
of the southern hemisphere. They are eminently pelagic birds, possessed of ..."
6. The Birds of Eastern North America Known to Occur East of the Nineteenth by Charles Barney Cory, Field Museum of Natural History (1899)
"... albatrosses. Very large wing, over 19 inches long; upper mandible, curved near
tip, forming a hook, the end (unguis) enlarged; nostrils, separate and ..."
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