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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mutton bird

▶noun a shearwater or petrel of the southern oceans. [Puffinus tenuirostris and other species.]

– origin C19: because when cooked, the flesh of some species resembles mutton in flavour.

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