The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wandering \Wan"der*ing\, a. & n. from Wander, v.
Wandering albatross (Zo["o]l.), the great white albatross. See Illust. of Albatross.
Wandering cell (Physiol.), an animal cell which possesses the power of spontaneous movement, as one of the white corpuscles of the blood.
Wandering Jew (Bot.), any one of several creeping species of Tradescantia, which have alternate, pointed leaves, and a soft, herbaceous stem which roots freely at the joints. They are commonly cultivated in hanging baskets, window boxes, etc.
Wandering kidney (Med.), a morbid condition in which one kidney, or, rarely, both kidneys, can be moved in certain directions; -- called also floating kidney, movable kidney.
Wandering liver (Med.), a morbid condition of the liver, similar to wandering kidney.
Wandering mouse (Zo["o]l.), the whitefooted, or deer, mouse. See Illust. of Mouse.
Wandering spider (Zo["o]l.), any one of a tribe of spiders that wander about in search of their prey.
Wiktionary
n. A large seabird, ''Diomedea exulans'', with a very large wingspread
WordNet
n. very large albatross; white with wide black wings [syn: Diomedea exulans]
Wikipedia
The wandering albatross, snowy albatross, white-winged albatross or goonie (Diomedea exulans) is a large seabird from the family Diomedeidae, which has a circumpolar range in the Southern Ocean. It was the first species of albatross to be described, and was long considered the same species as the Tristan albatross and the Antipodean albatross. A few authors still consider them all subspecies of the same species. The SACC has a proposal on the table to split this species, and BirdLife International has already split it. Together with the Amsterdam albatross, it forms the wandering albatross species complex. The wandering albatross is one of the two largest members of the genus Diomedea (the great albatrosses), being similar in size to the southern royal albatross. It is one of the largest birds in the world, and one of the best known and studied species of bird in the world. This is also one of the most far ranging birds. Some individual wandering albatrosses are known to circumnavigate the Southern Ocean three times (covering more than 120,000 km) in one year.
Usage examples of "wandering albatross".
Kill everybody and everything in this camp before a skua gull or a wandering albatross coming in with the spring chances out this way and—.
Kill everybody and everything in this camp before a skua gull or a wandering albatross coming in with the spring chances out this way and—.
Their former intimacy revived to some extent, and although Herapath loathed walking knee-deep in the rank sodden grass that covered much of the lower ground, and although he did not greatly care whether the huge nesting fowl upon which they pored was a royal or a wandering albatross, he did not dislike these expeditions so long as he was not too often called upon to admire a pool of algae or an infant blue-eyed shag.
No possibility of error: enormous birds: not perhaps as wide as the wandering albatross but more massive by far- a different kind of flight, a different use of the air entirely.
Holding position effortlessly above the jackstaff was a Wandering Albatross.
Most were the Diomedea exulans of Linnaeus, the bird he loved best of all that lived at sea, the great wandering albatross, an immense creature, twelve feet across or even more, the old cock-birds a pure snowy white with black, black edgings.
He grew almost as enthusiastic about gentlemen as Stephen had been about the wandering albatross - the common people instinctively recognized blood and accepted its superiority - they knew that a man of ancient lineage was as it were of another essence, and they could distinguish him at once, almost as though he wore a halo.
There were albatrosses of various sorts, including the wandering albatrossprobably the largest bird known.