Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

audubon's shearwater

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.56 in modern English

Syllables: audubon's s-hear-wa-ter
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

4

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Puffinus lherminieri, a common tropical seabird.

Etymology

Named after the ornithologist John James Audubon.

Inflected Forms

Audubon's shearwaters (plural)

Questions

What does audubon's shearwater mean?: Puffinus lherminieri, a common tropical seabird.
Where does audubon's shearwater come from?: Named after the ornithologist John James Audubon.

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