noun
- Black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas. .
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(n.) A name given to various
species of arctic sea birds of the family
Alcidae. The great auk, now extinct, is Alca (/ Plautus) impennis. The razor-billed auk is A. torda. See
Puffin, Guillemot, and
Murre.
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary