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Definition of Mollymawk
1. Noun. Large web-footed birds of the southern hemisphere having long narrow wings; noted for powerful gliding flight.
Generic synonyms: Oceanic Bird, Pelagic Bird
Group relationships: Diomedeidae, Family Diomedeidae
Specialized synonyms: Diomedea Exulans, Wandering Albatross, Black-footed Albatross, Diomedea Nigripes, Gooney, Gooney Bird, Goonie, Goony
Definition of Mollymawk
1. n. See Mollemoke.
Definition of Mollymawk
1. Noun. Any of a group of medium-sized albatrosses in the genus ''Thalassarche''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mollymawk
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mollymawk
Literary usage of Mollymawk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Voyage of the "Challenger.": The Atlantic; a Preliminary Account of the by Charles Wyville Thomson (1878)
"The mollymawk is a smaller bird, and builds a higher and narrower nest, also
usually in the open, but sometimes among the brush and tussocks, in which case ..."
2. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1874)
"The mollymawk is a smaller bird, and builds a higher and narrower nest, also
usually in the open, but sometimes among the brush and tussocks, in which case ..."
3. The Californian Illustrated Magazine by Charles Frederick Holder, Edward James Livernash (1892)
"No one could watch the courtship of the albatross, known familiarly as the
mollymawk, and believe that birds have not an equivalent for kissing. ..."
4. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1893)
"... Koel, mollymawk, Tomfool, etc., which occur more or less frequently in books
of all sorts, but especially ..."
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