fulmarnoun [ C ]
/ˈfʊl.mər//ˈfʊl.mɚ/a sea bird with grey and white feathers:
On the spectacular cliffs, visitors can see guillemots, puffins, and fulmars.
More examples
- Gannets and fulmars flew alongside the ship.
- Opportunist seabirds like gulls, fulmars, and skuas have come to see fishing boats as a source of food.
- The fulmar is a bird of the open seas, hardly ever stepping a webbed foot on land, except during the breeding season.
- Thousands of dead northern fulmars - a smaller cousin of the albatross - were washed up on West Coast beaches.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Birds found by or on the sea
- albatross
- cormorant
- curlew
- gannet
- guillemot
- gull
- penguin
- petrel
- plover
- puffin
- seagull
- shag
- skua
- tern