laughing gull

English

Laughing gull (sense 2) in flight

Noun

laughing gull (plural laughing gulls)

1. A common European gull ().
2. An American gull (Leucophaeus atricilla); in summer the head is nearly black, the back slate color, and the five outer primaries black.

Synonyms

• (European gull): black cap, pewit, red-legged gull, sea crow

Translations

European gull

• Finnish: naurulokki (fi)
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• German: Lachmöwe (de) f
• Swedish: skrattmås (sv) c

American gull

• Dutch: lachmeeuw
• Finnish: nokisiipilokki (fi)
• German: Aztekenmöwe f
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• Navajo: tónteel tsídii yidlohí
• Russian: ацте́кская ча́йка f (actékskaja čájka), сме́ющаяся ча́йка f (sméjuščajasja čájka)
• Swedish: sotvingad mås (sv) c

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “laughing gull”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)