noun
type genus of the Laridae
• Syn: ↑genus Larus
• Hypernyms: ↑bird genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Laridae, ↑family Laridae
• Member Meronyms:
↑mew, ↑mew gull, ↑sea mew, ↑Larus canus, ↑black-backed gull, ↑great black-backed gull, ↑cob, ↑Larus marinus, ↑herring gull, ↑Larus argentatus, ↑laughing gull, ↑blackcap, ↑pewit, ↑pewit gull, ↑Larus ridibundus
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\\ˈla(a)rəs\ nounUsage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Late Latin, gull, from Greek laros; perhaps akin to Latin lamentum lament — more at lament
: a large cosmopolitan genus of gulls comprising many of the better-known gulls and being the type of the family Laridae — see bonaparte's gull, glaucous gull, herring gull, laughing gull
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Larus /läˈ or lāˈrəs/
noun
The principal genus of the gull family (Laridae /larˈi-dē/)
ORIGIN: L, from Gr laros a bird, prob a gull
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larˈine adjective
larˈoid adjective
Useful english dictionary. 2012.