fulmar
noun /ˈfʊlmə(r)/
/ˈfʊlmər/
- a grey and white bird that lives near the seaTopics Birdsc2Word Originlate 17th cent.: from Hebridean Norn dialect, from Old Norse fúll ‘stinking, foul’ (because of its habit of regurgitating its stomach contents when disturbed) + már ‘gull’.