ALBATROSS

Albatross

Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds allied to the procellariids, storm-petrels and diving-petrels in the order Procellariiformes . They range widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific. They are absent from the North Atlantic, although fossil remains show they once occurred there too and occasional vagrants are found. Albatrosses are among the largest of flying birds, and the great albatrosses have the largest wingspans of any extant birds, reaching up to . The albatrosses are usually regarded as falling into four genera, but there is disagreement over the number of species.

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albatross

Noun

  1. 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. A double eagle, or three under par on any one hole.
  3. A long-term impediment, burden, or curse.


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