black guillemot

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   northern Atlantic guillemot

   SynonymsCepphus grylle

   Broaderguillemot

Questions about black guillemot

What does black guillemot mean?

black guillemot means "northern Atlantic guillemot".

What is another word for black guillemot?

Close synonyms include Cepphus grylle. 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 guillemot a common word?

black guillemot 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.