sula bassana

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   very large white gannet with black wing tips

   Synonymssolansolan goosesolant goose

   Broadergannet

   Part ofSula

Questions about sula bassana

What does sula bassana mean?

sula bassana means "very large white gannet with black wing tips".

What is another word for sula bassana?

Close synonyms include solan, solan goose, solant goose. 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 sula bassana a common word?

sula bassana 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.