alcid


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
alcid /ˈalsɪd/
noun Ornithology a bird of the auk family (Alcidae).
– origin C19: from mod. L. Alcidae, from the genus name Alca, from ON álka ‘razorbill’; cf. auk.
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