hagdon

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English

a hagdon (great shearwater, Ardenna gravis)
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Etymology

Unknown. Compare later haglet (“shearwater, petrel”). Attested (as hagden) from the 17th century.

Noun

hagdon (plural hagdons)

  1. (regional, now rare) One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus, especially, Ardenna gravis (syn. Puffinus gravis, Puffinus major), the great shearwater, and Puffinus stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater.

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