Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small black-and-white sea bird (Alle alle) of the Arctic and northern Atlantic oceans, having a short bill and a stout body. Also called little auk.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The sea-dove or little auk, Mergulus alle or Alle nigricans, a small urinatorial or diving bird of the family Alcidæ. It is abundant in the northern Atlantic and Arctic oceans, congregating to breed in some places in countless numbers. It is about 8½ inches long, web-footed, three-toed, with short wings and tail and short stout bill, the body glossy blue-black above, with white scapular stripes, ends of secondaries white, and the under parts mostly white. See
Alle .
Wiktionary
- n. A small back and white seabird, of the genus Alle, of the north Atlantic; the little auk.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A guillemot (Uria grylle), of the arctic regions. Also applied to the little auk or sea dove. See under dove.
WordNet 3.0
- n. small short-billed auk abundant in Arctic regions
Etymologies
- Diminutive of dove1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica), dovekie (little auk), razorbills (Alca torda), and black guillemots are legally hunted in Labrador.”
Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic
“One distressed dovekie was picked up, but failed to survive.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dovekie’.
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WWF WTF?
Ever play "Words With Friends" with someone and they throw down some strange, unlikely group of letters that makes even the most mild and squeaky clean tongued person say "whiskey tango foxtrot"? ...
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birds
birds with singular names from
at least 9 English dictionariesaasvogel, aberdevine, accentor, accipiter, aepyornis, agami, albatross, alcatras, alcid, alcidine, amadavat, amokura and 1056 more...
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Still More Bird Wirds
A work in progress....Birds from around the world (other than endemic to North America).
barbet, hornbill, trogon, bee-eater, bristlehead, wren-babbler, stubtail, blackeye, bush warbler, cassowary, bowerbird, bird-of-paradise and 722 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for dovekie.
bilby "This bird typically lays one egg in a cavity on a steep rocky slope close to the sea. They raise one chick that leaves the nest about 27 days after hatching. It is estimated that 60 million Dovekies breed in the Thule District. A significant portion of those occur in the area from Cape Atholl south to Parker Snow Bay."
- 'Alle alle', borealforests.org. Nov 26, 2008