sterna hirundo

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

   Synonymssea swallow

   Broadertern

   Part ofSterna

Questions about sterna hirundo

What does sterna hirundo mean?

sterna hirundo means "common tern of Eurasia and America having white black and grey plumage".

What is another word for sterna hirundo?

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

sterna hirundo 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.