murreletn.
/ˈməːlᵻt/, U.S. /ˈmərlət/ Any of several small auks of the genera Brachyramphus and Synthliboramphus, chiefly inhabiting the northern Pacific and typically having white underparts and a grey back.marbled murrelet: see marbled adj. Compounds.
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1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 344 Brachyrhamphus marmoratus... Marbled Guillemot, or Murrelet.
1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 344 Kittlitz's Murrelet.
1917 T. G. Pearson Birds Amer. I. 23/2 The Ancient Murrelet is another of the diving birds which fairly swarm on many of [the] islands along the southern coast of Alaska.
1942 R. L. Haig-Brown Timber vii. 74 Grebes and murrelets dived and scattered showers of bright little forage fish into the air ahead of their swimming.
1997 New Scientist 3 May 41/1 Ancient murrelets, rhinoceros auklets, red-breasted mergansers,..had all become victims of oil leaking from the hulk.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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