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n- One of several large oceanic birds.

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Usage examples (3)
  • A big albatross swung slowly down the surf: albatross or mollyhawk, with wide, waving wings.
  • From July to October the men get a great number of eaglet, penguin, and mollyhawk eggs -- all sea-fowl.
  • -- A mollyhawk was brought in today, it weighed four pounds and measured from tip of beak to tip of tail thirty inches, from tip of wing to tip of wing seventy-eight,...
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