COASTAL DIVING BIRD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coastal diving bird mean? 

• COASTAL DIVING BIRD (noun)
  The noun COASTAL DIVING BIRD has 1 sense:

1. gull family; skimmer family; jaeger family; auk family

  Familiarity information: COASTAL DIVING BIRD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COASTAL DIVING BIRD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gull family; skimmer family; jaeger family; auk family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("coastal diving bird" is a kind of...):

sea bird; seabird; seafowl (a bird that frequents coastal waters and the open ocean: gulls; pelicans; gannets; cormorants; albatrosses; petrels; etc.)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coastal diving bird"):

larid (long-winged web-footed aquatic bird of the gull family)

skimmer (gull-like seabird that flies along the surface of the water with an elongated lower mandible immersed to skim out food)

jaeger (rapacious seabird that pursues weaker birds to make them drop their prey)

Holonyms ("coastal diving bird" is a member of...):

Charadriiformes; order Charadriiformes (large diverse order of aquatic birds found along seacoasts and inland waters: shorebirds and coastal diving birds; most feed on anima life)