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gull noun1. LME.
[British: cf. Old Cornish guilan, Welsh gwylan, Breton gouelan, gwelan (whence French goeland).]
Any of numerous birds of the family Laridae, related to the terns, comprising long-winged gregarious mainly coastal birds that occur worldwide and are usually white with a grey or black mantle and a bright bill; colloq. a tern or skua.
herring gull, ivory gull, Ross's gull, wagel gull, etc.
Comb.: gull-billed tern a tern, Gelochelidon nilotica, found near water in temperate and subtropical parts of the western Palaearctic; gull-wing noun & adjective (a) noun an aeroplane wing composed of a shorter part sloping upwards from the fuselage and a longer part more nearly horizontal; (b) adjective designating a car door that opens upwards.
gull-like [-l-l-] adjective resembling (that of) a gull L19.