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murre
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun murre has 1 sense
- murre(n = noun.animal) - black-and-white diving bird of northern seas; is a kind of guillemot
is a member of genus uria, uria
has particulars: common murre, uria aalge, thick-billed murre, uria lomvia
CIDE DICTIONARY
murre, n.
Any one of several species of sea birds of the genus Uria , or Catarractes ; a guillemot. [1913 Webster]
" The murres are allied to the auks, and are abundant on the northern coasts of Europe and America. They often breed in large communities on the projecting ledges of precipituous cliffs, laying one or two large eggs on the bare rocks."
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