sea swallow

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   common tern of Eurasia and America having white black and grey plumage

   SynonymsSterna hirundo

   Broadertern

   Part ofSterna

Questions about sea swallow

What does sea swallow mean?

sea swallow means "common tern of Eurasia and America having white black and grey plumage".

What is another word for sea swallow?

Close synonyms include Sterna hirundo. 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 sea swallow a common word?

sea swallow 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.