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Small short-billed auk abundant in arctic regions
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dovekie
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. small short-billed auk abundant in arctic regions [syn: little auk , Plautus alle ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A small back and white seabird, of the genus ''Alle'', of the north Atlantic; the little auk.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rotche \Rotche\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A very small arctic sea bird ( Mergulus alle , or Alle alle ) common on both coasts of the Atlantic in winter; -- called also little auk , dovekie , rotch , rotchie , and sea dove .
Usage examples of dovekie.
A bevy of dovekies and terns scolded with angry squawks when she collected eggs.
So I am pampered, fussed over, Annie makes me pants from my polar bear skin and an undershirt from the skins of murres while her mother feeds me dovekies cached since the summer in a sealskin bag.
Around him were breeding terns and gulls, snow geese and murres, eiders and dovekies.
Whenever they discussed the geographical distribution of plants and animals, they always parted company at the final step of the hypothesis—that just as the arctic supported a white bear rather than black or grizzly bears, murres and dovekies rather than penguins, so too might the Esquimaux differ at a species level from the men in other places.