catharacta skua

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   large brown skua of the northern Atlantic

   Synonymsgreat skua

   Broaderskua

Questions about catharacta skua

What does catharacta skua mean?

catharacta skua means "large brown skua of the northern Atlantic".

What is another word for catharacta skua?

Close synonyms include great skua. 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 catharacta skua a common word?

catharacta skua 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.