fulmar

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See also: fúlmár

English

A northern fulmar
In flight

Etymology

From Old Norse fúll (foul) + már (gull) (cognate to English mew), evidently in reference to the foul-smelling vomit it ejects to deter predators.

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Noun

fulmar (plural fulmars)

  1. Either of two species of pelagic seabird in the genus Fulmarus, Fulmarus glacialis and F. glacialoides, which breed on cliffs.
    • 2004, Anne Birgitte Gotfredsen, Tinna Møbjerg, Nipisat - A Saqqaq Culture Site in Sisimiut, Central West Greenland, page 104:
      In the southern districts, the Inuit hunted fulmars with bird darts from kayaks (Helms 1926). The Nipisat people may have hunted fulmar and great shearwater, probably using similar methods.
    • 2009, Gary Latter, “Scottish Rock”, in North, volume 2, page 383:
      In particular, fulmars have the distinctive trait of vomiting half-digested fish oil when approached on the nest and should be given a wide berth wherever possible.
    • 2010, Roger D. Taylor, Mingming & the Art of Minimal Ocean Sailing, page 290:
      And why oh why is it always bloody fulmars following us about? Have they got nothing better to do, these silly lickspittle fulmars, than to ape every petty twist and turn of our hollow peregrinations? I'm sick of fulmars.

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Etymology

Borrowed from English fulmar.

Pronunciation

Noun

fulmar m (plural fulmars)

  1. fulmar

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Polish

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈful.mar/
  • Rhymes: -ulmar
  • Syllabification: ful‧mar

Noun

fulmar m animal

  1. fulmar

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Further reading

  • fulmar in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

fulmar m (plural fulmares)

  1. fulmar (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
    Synonym: pardelão

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fulˈmaɾ/
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: ful‧mar

Adjective

fulmar m or f (masculine and feminine plural fulmares)

  1. fulmarine

Noun

fulmar m (plural fulmares)

  1. fulmar

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