noun
small black-headed European gull
• Syn: ↑blackcap, ↑pewit, ↑pewit gull, ↑Larus ridibundus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Larus, ↑genus Larus
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noun1. : a black-headed gull (Larus ridibundus)
2. : an American gull (Larus atricilla)
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a North American gull, Larus atricilla, having a high, laughlike call.
[1780-90, Amer.]
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laughing gull,
a small gull of temperate and tropical America that has a cry like laughing: »
Identify the laughing gull by his coal-black head that looks as if he had dunked it in a big inkwell, his gray back, dark wingtips and squared white tail feathers (New York Times).
Useful english dictionary. 2012.