Tern

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various sea birds of the genus Sterna and related genera, related to and resembling the gulls but characteristically smaller and having a forked tail.
  • n. Games A set of three, especially a combination of three numbers that wins a lottery.
  • n. A three-masted schooner.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of various sea birds of the family Sternidae that are similar to gulls but are smaller, more elegant and have a forked tail.
  • n. That which consists of, or pertains to, three things or numbers together.
  • n. A lottery prize resulting from the favourable combination of three numbers in the draw.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Any one of numerous species of long-winged aquatic birds, allied to the gulls, and belonging to Sterna and various allied genera.
  • adj. Threefold; triple; consisting of three; ternate.
  • n. That which consists of, or pertains to, three things or numbers together; especially, a prize in a lottery resulting from the favorable combination of three numbers in the drawing; also, the three numbers themselves.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A bird of the family Laridæ and subfamily Sterninæ; a stern or seaswallow.
  • n. A black tern; any member of the genus Hydrochelidon. See cut under Hydrochelidon.
  • Same as ternate.
  • n. That which consists of three things or numbers together; specifically, a prize in a lottery gained by drawing three favorable numbers, or the three numbers so drawn.
  • n. In mathematics, a system of three pairs of conjugate trihedra which together contain the twenty-seven straight lines lying in a cubic surface.
  • n. A threemasted schooner; a three-master.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail
  • Hypernym
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    larid   
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    threefold    triple    ternate   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    sea-gull    curlew    petrel    francolin    gull    ptarmigan    spoonbill    plover    hacerme    albatross