English Explanatory Dictionary

hagdon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus, especially, Ardenna gravis (syn. Puffinus gravis, Puffinus major), the great shearwater, and Puffinus stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater.

Word forms

hagdon hagdons hag hagdown haglin hagden

Etymology

Unknown. Compare later haglet (“shearwater, petrel”). Attested (as hagden) from the 17th century.

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