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  • noun Plural form of mollymawk.

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  • South Jason, an island about four miles long, supports populations of black-browed albatross (also known as mollymawks), endangered rockhopper penguin, Magellanic penguin, and prions (a small white seabird similar to a petrel).

    Nikolas Kozloff: WikiLeaks: Governments Fear Environmentalists Nikolas Kozloff 2011

  • South Jason, an island about four miles long, supports populations of black-browed albatross (also known as mollymawks), endangered rockhopper penguin, Magellanic penguin, and prions (a small white seabird similar to a petrel).

    Nikolas Kozloff: WikiLeaks: Governments Fear Environmentalists Nikolas Kozloff 2011

  • South Jason, an island about four miles long, supports populations of black-browed albatross (also known as mollymawks), endangered rockhopper penguin, Magellanic penguin, and prions (a small white seabird similar to a petrel).

    Nikolas Kozloff: WikiLeaks: Governments Fear Environmentalists Nikolas Kozloff 2011

  • South Jason, an island about four miles long, supports populations of black-browed albatross (also known as mollymawks), endangered rockhopper penguin, Magellanic penguin, and prions (a small white seabird similar to a petrel).

    Nikolas Kozloff: WikiLeaks: Governments Fear Environmentalists Nikolas Kozloff 2011

  • In addition to the albatross, several nests of which were scattered about the open ground on the plateau to the number of a hundred or more, there were lots of mollymawks and terns, or "sea swallows."

    Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes

  • An 'the mollymawks an' flyin'-fish an 'stately albatross,

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-07 Various 1898

  • We now have a milder breeze from the SOFT N.E., after a BITTER S.W., with Cape pigeons and mollymawks (a small albatross), not to compare with our gulls.

    Letters from the Cape Lucie Duff Gordon 1845

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