short-tailed shearwater

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Definitions of short-tailed shearwater words

noun short-tailed shearwater any of several long-winged seabirds, often used as food, especially Puffinus tenuirostris (short-tailed shearwater) of Australia and Puffinus griseus (sooty shearwater) which breeds in the Southern Hemisphere and winters in the Northern Hemisphere. 1
noun short-tailed shearwater a large Australian shearwater that migrates to the northern hemisphere in the southern winter 0

before 1840

One of the 33% newest English words

First recorded in 1840-50

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