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Definition of Dovekie
1. Noun. Small short-billed auk abundant in Arctic regions.
Generic synonyms: Auk
Group relationships: Genus Plautus, Plautus
Definition of Dovekie
1. n. A guillemot (Uria grylle), of the arctic regions. Also applied to the little auk or sea dove. See under Dove.
Definition of Dovekie
1. Noun. A small back and white seabird, of the genus ''Alle'', of the north Atlantic; the little auk. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dovekie
1. a seabird [n -S] - See also: seabird
Medical Definition of Dovekie
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dovekie
Literary usage of Dovekie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Thousand Days in the Arctic by Frederick George Jackson (1899)
"On August nth of the same year I shot a young bird in the sea off the cape, and
on October loth a dovekie in winter plumage was seen on the Gully Rocks. ..."
2. A Thousand Days in the Arctic by Frederick George Jackson (1899)
"On August nth of the same year I shot a young bird in the sea off the cape, and
on October loth a dovekie in winter plumage was seen on the Gully Rocks. ..."
3. The Bird Book: Illustrating in Natural Colors More Than Seven Hundred North by Chester Albert Reed (1914)
"dovekie. Range.—Coasts and islands of the North Atlantic and East Arctic oceans,
... The little dovekie or Sea Dove is the smallest member of the family, ..."
4. The Birds of Essex County, Massachusetts by Charles Wendell Townsend (1905)
"Although the dovekie is found every winter off the coast, especially at the end
of Cape Ann, it is only exceptionally that it is found in numbers near the ..."
5. Guide to the Systematic Use of the North American Bird and Nature Study: A by Harold Brough Shinn, Gerard Alan Abbott (1912)
"The dovekie, commonly called Sea Dove or Little Auk, is a little fellow with ...
The dovekie deposits her single large pale greenish blue egg in crevices of ..."
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