black-footed albatross

Questions about black-footed albatross

What does black-footed albatross mean?

black-footed albatross means "a variety of albatross with black feet".

What is another word for black-footed albatross?

Close synonyms include gooney, gooney bird, goonie, goony, Diomedea nigripes. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black-footed albatross a common word?

black-footed albatross is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.