OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 3683

gull

/ˈɡʌl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
gaviota
A seabird of the genus Larus or of the subfamily Larinae.
Most gulls don’t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight—how to get from shore to food and back again.[…]For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but…
The tide was out, and we drew up amid the strong bracing smell of seaweed, with gulls screeching, wheeling around, and gliding on the wind.
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