fulmar

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Near starvation, Sedna was eventually tricked and kidnapped (or rescued, depending how you look at it) by a weird half-human, half-bird creature called a fulmar.

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  1. noun A gull-like bird (Fulmarus glacialis) of Arctic regions, having smoky gray plumage.
  2. noun Any of several similar or related birds.

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  • Near starvation, Sedna was eventually tricked and kidnapped (or rescued, depending how you look at it) by a weird half-human, half-bird creature called a fulmar. —  Does Not Exist
  • One night the father, filled with remorse, came looking for Sedna in his kayak and attempted to rescue her from the dreaded fulmar. —  Does Not Exist
  • We also saw a variety of seabirds -- gannet, fulmar, petrel, skua, guillemot and many other kinds of seagull. —  UnderwaterTimes.com News of the Underwater World
  • A study of fulmar carcases that washed up on North Sea coastlines found that 95 per cent had plastic in their stomachs -- an average of 45 pieces per bird. —  EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed
  • The fulmar is bold and voracious, and smells villanously, on which account it is only eaten in cases of necessity, although its flesh, if the bird has not recently devoured too much rotten blubber, is by no means without relish, at least for those who have become accustomed to the flavour of train oil, when not too strong. —  The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
 

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  1. Dialectal : probably Old Norse fūll, foul; see pū̆- in Indo-European roots + mār, mew; akin to Old English mǣw.

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  1. from Middle English fulmar, fulmare, fulmer, shorter forms of fulmart, fulmard, the polecat: see foulmart.
  2. A transferred use of fulmar, the bird being so called from its extremely strong and persistent odor, and from its habit of ejecting oil from its stomach, through the mouth, when seized or assailed; in allusion to analogous characteristics of the polecat: see fulmar. The Gaelic name fulmair and the New Latin generic name Fulmarus are taken from the English
 

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/ˈfəlmər/
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