hagdon

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English

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a hagdon (great shearwater, Ardenna gravis)
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Etymology

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Unknown. Compare later haglet (shearwater, petrel). Attested (as hagden) from the 17th century.

Noun

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hagdon (plural hagdons)

  1. (regional, now rare) One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus, especially, Ardenna gravis (syn. Puffinus gravis, Puffinus major), the great shearwater, and Puffinus stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater.

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