EGAVE

albatross

About 0.45 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Any of various large seabirds of the family Diomedeidae ranging widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific and having a hooked beak and long narrow wings.
  2. noun Any of various African and Asian pierid butterflies of the genus Appias. Some species of this genus are also known as puffins.
  3. noun A double eagle, or three under par on any one hole, except a par 3 hole.
  4. noun A long-term impediment, burden, or curse.

Similar words

millstone browed mantled burden boulet great albatross wandering albatross wanderer gooney gooney bird

Often followed by

and around station is of was in to diomedea

Word family

albatrosses

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