cahow
/kəˈhaʊ
/noun
A large endangered Atlantic petrel which breeds in Bermuda.
- Pterodroma cahow, family Procellariidae.
- He has taken invasives by the roots and continues the effort to save our indigenous cahows from extinction.
- This year the world's last 24 pairs of cahows have produced twelve healthy chicks.
Origin
Early 17th century: imitative of its call.
- Queen's Champion
- queen's china
- queen's cloth
- Queen's colour
- queen's conch
- Queen's Counsel
- Queen's County
- queen's cushion
- queen's delight
- Queen's English
- Queen's evidence
- queen's evil
- queen's flower
- queen's gambit
- queen's gold
- Queen's Guide
- Queen's highway
- queenship
- queenside
- queen-size
- queen-sized
- queen's knight
- queen's lace
- Queensland
- Queensland bean