hagdon
English
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Alternative forms
Etymology
Unknown. Compare later haglet (“shearwater, petrel”). Attested (as hagden) from the 17th century.
Noun
hagdon (plural hagdons)
- (regional, now rare) One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus, especially, Ardenna gravis (syn. Puffinus gravis, Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.), the great shearwater, and Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template., the black hagdon or sooty shearwater.
References
hagdon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Puffinus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- “hagden, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2016.
- “hagdon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.