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grylle
† grylle Obs. rare. [ad. L. gryllus a cricket or grasshopper, a. Gr. γρύλλος.] A cricket.1555 Eden Decades 115 Baskets full of gressehoppers, grylles, crabbes or crefysshes..all well dryed and salted.
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Black guillemot
and Britain, southern Scandinavia and the White Sea
Cepphus grylle islandicus – (Hørring, 1937): Iceland
Cepphus grylle faroeensis – (Brehm, 1831): Faroe Islands
Cepphus grylle grylle – (Linnaeus, 1758): Baltic Sea
Distribution and habitat
The black guillemot is a circumpolar species distributed in the
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scraber
scraber Sc. (ˈskreɪbə(r)) [Of obscure origin; in Gaelic sgrabair. Cf. prec.] A name for the Black Guillemot, Uria Grylle, and the Manx Shearwater, Puffinus anglorum.1698 M. Martin Voy. St. Kilda (1749) 30 The Scraber [the black Guillemot, Uria Grylle], so called in St. Kilda. 1768 Pennant Brit. Zool...
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Gros-Mécatina Migratory Bird Sanctuary
Other birds that form colonies on the islands include Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica), black guillemot (Cepphus grylle), razorbill (Alca torda), American
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grillo
‖ grillo (ˈgrɪləʊ) [It. and Sp.: see grylle.] A cricket.1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Trav. Spain I. 520 The Spaniards, like the ancients, delight in the Grillo. 1929 C. Mackenzie Gallipoli Mem. xi. 189 A wonderful race it was with..the grillos shrilling far and wide across that moon-drenched island. 1949 E...
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Guillemot
Cepphus
Black guillemot or tystie, Cepphus grylle
Pigeon guillemot, Cepphus columba
Spectacled guillemot, Cepphus carbo
As in other genera of auks Cepphus olsoni (San Luis Rey River Late Miocene—Early Pliocene of W USA)
Cepphus cf. columba (Lawrence Canyon Early Pliocene of W USA)
Cepphus cf. grylle
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Cepphus
Cepphus storeri Harrison, 1977 (Red Crag of Suffolk Late Miocene - England
Cepphus cf. columba (Lawrence Canyon Early Pliocene of W USA)
Cepphus cf. grylle
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guillemot
guillemot (ˈgɪlɪmɒt) [a. F. guillemot (1555 in Hatz.-Darm.), app. a derivative of the name Guillaume = William. Cf. guillem and willock.] The name of several species of sea birds of the genus Alca or Uria; esp. Uria or Alca troile, the Common or Foolish Guillemot, and Uria grylle, the Black Guillemo...
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hoggish
hoggish, a. (ˈhɒgɪʃ) [f. hog n.1 + -ish.] Of, belonging to, or characteristic of a hog or pig; swinish, piggish; coarsely self-indulgent or gluttonous; filthy; mean, selfish.1548 Thomas Ital. Dict. (1567), Ciacco, an hoggysh or slouenly man. 1552 Huloet, Hoggish, or of a hogge, porcarius, porcinus. ...
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Pitsiulartok
The name "Pituilaktok" comes from the Inuktitut name for a local bird known in English as the black guillemot (cepphus grylle), "pitiula".
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dovekie
dovekie (ˈdʌvkɪ) Also doveca, -key, -ky. [Sc. dim. of dove: cf. lassikie, wifikie, or -ockie (which are of 3 syllables), and see dove 1 c, dovie b.] An arctic bird, the Black Guillemot (Uria Grylle). Also (and now normally), the little auk (Plautus alle).1821 A. Fisher Jrnl. 27 Another species of di...
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Osmussaar Landscape Conservation Area
Other bird species
Haliaeetus albicilla, Crex crex, Podiceps grisegena, Cygnus cygnus, Sterna caspia Cepphus grylle, Columba oenas, Anthus cervinus, Calidris
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tystie
tystie local. (ˈtaɪstɪ, ˈtiːstɪ) Also 8 taisté, 9 tysté, -ty, -tie, -tey, teisty, teistie, testie, tiestie. [Of Norse origin: cf. Norw. teist(e, OIcel. þeist, þeisti.] The Black Guillemot.1774 Low Fauna Orcad. (1813) 106 The taisté build in holes of the earth: lay but one egg. 1837 R. Dunn Ornith. O...
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Saemundssonia
Species
Species include:
S. acutipecta
S. boschi
S. calva
S. celidoxa
S. fraterculae
S. grylle
S. insolita
S. laticaudata
S. merguli
S. montereyi
S. wumisuzume
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tinkershere
tinkershere, -shire (ˈtɪŋkəʃɪə(r)) Also (? erron.) -shue. [f. tinker n. (cf. 3 f): the second element is obscure.] A local name for the common guillemot; also for the black guillemot.1799 R. Pulteney Catal. Birds, etc. Dorset (1813) 17 Colymbus Troile... The Foolish Guillemot Diver; called here The ...
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