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Princeton's WordNet

  1. gull, seagull, sea gullnoun

    mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs

Wiktionary

  1. seagullnoun

    Any of several white, often dark backed birds of the family Laridae having long pointed wings and short legs.

  2. seagullnoun

    The symbol , which combines under a letter as a sort of accent.

  3. Seagullnoun

    someone connected with Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Seagullnoun

    A water fowl.

    Etymology: sea and gull.

    Seagulls, when they flock together from the sea towards the shores, foreshow rain and wind. Francis Bacon, Nat. History.

    Bitterns, herons, and seagulls, are great enemies to fish. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

  2. Seagullnoun

    A sea bird. Robert Ainsworth

Wikipedia

  1. seagull

    Gulls, or colloquially seagulls, are seabirds of the family Laridae in the suborder Lari. They are most closely related to the terns and skimmers and only distantly related to auks, and even more distantly to waders. Until the 21st century, most gulls were placed in the genus Larus, but that arrangement is now considered polyphyletic, leading to the resurrection of several genera. An older name for gulls is mews, which is cognate with German Möwe, Danish måge, Swedish mås, Dutch meeuw, Norwegian måke/måse and French mouette, and can still be found in certain regional dialects.Gulls are typically medium to large in size, usually grey or white, often with black markings on the head or wings. They typically have harsh wailing or squawking calls; stout, longish bills; and webbed feet. Most gulls are ground-nesting carnivores which take live food or scavenge opportunistically, particularly the Larus species. Live food often includes crustaceans, molluscs, fish and small birds. Gulls have unhinging jaws which allow them to consume large prey. Gulls are typically coastal or inland species, rarely venturing far out to sea, except for the kittiwakes. The large species take up to four years to attain full adult plumage, but two years is typical for small gulls. Large white-headed gulls are typically long-lived birds, with a maximum age of 49 years recorded for the herring gull.Gulls nest in large, densely packed, noisy colonies. They lay two or three speckled eggs in nests composed of vegetation. The young are precocial, born with dark mottled down and mobile upon hatching. Gulls are resourceful, inquisitive, and intelligent, the larger species in particular, demonstrating complex methods of communication and a highly developed social structure. For example, many gull colonies display mobbing behavior, attacking and harassing predators and other intruders. Certain species have exhibited tool-use behavior, such as the herring gull, using pieces of bread as bait with which to catch goldfish, for example. Many species of gulls have learned to coexist successfully with humans and have thrived in human habitats. Others rely on kleptoparasitism to get their food. Gulls have been observed preying on live whales, landing on the whale as it surfaces to peck out pieces of flesh.

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  1. seagull

    A seagull is a type of large bird that typically lives near the sea. They are part of the Laridae family and are known for their distinctive squawking sound, ability to fly long distances, and scavenging behavior. Seagulls are commonly white or gray in color, and have long wings and webbed feet. Their diet mainly comprises fish and other marine life, but they also feed on human food waste, especially in urban areas. Seagulls have a wide geographical range and are found across many parts of the world.

Wikidata

  1. Seagull

    Seagull is a Canadian company and sub-brand of Godin Guitars that produces acoustic guitars. Born out of La Patrie, a small village in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, this company handcrafts acoustic guitars targeted towards working musicians. Established in 1982 by Robert Godin and a few of his friends, this company specializes in making acoustic guitars with solid tops as opposed to laminated tops.

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  1. sullage

  2. ullages

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of SEAGULL in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of SEAGULL in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of SEAGULL in a Sentence

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    It’s kind of like, you go to the beach and you throw up food to seagulls and the seagull doesn’t really check what the food is exactly, they just eat it up. They gobble it up and that’s what happens with the media so often, during the Trump era we had all these unnamed source stories that only seem to go in one direction, negative toward the 45th president.

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