auk
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɔːk/
auk (plural auks)
- Any of several species of Arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae.
- 2018, Louise Tickle, The Guardian, 20 June ↗:
- Further afield, these auks are also in dire straits: Norway has seen vertiginous crashes, with hundreds of thousands of adult puffins in the once-teeming colony of Røst struggling to fledge any chicks in recent years.
- Synonyms: alcid
- 2018, Louise Tickle, The Guardian, 20 June ↗:
- French: pingouin
- German: Alk, Alkenvogel (family: Alkenvögel)
- Italian: alca
- Portuguese: torda
- Russian: гага́рка
- Spanish: alca
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