great skua

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   large brown skua of the northern Atlantic

   SynonymsCatharacta skua

   Broaderskua

Questions about great skua

What does great skua mean?

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

What is another word for great skua?

Close synonyms include Catharacta 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 great skua a common word?

great 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.