manx shearwater

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   small black-and-white shearwater common in the northeastern Atlantic

   SynonymsPuffinus puffinus

   Broadershearwater

Questions about manx shearwater

What does manx shearwater mean?

manx shearwater means "small black-and-white shearwater common in the northeastern Atlantic".

What is another word for manx shearwater?

Close synonyms include Puffinus puffinus. 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 manx shearwater a common word?

manx shearwater 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.