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Type Words
Type of larid
Has types sea swallow, sterna hirundo

Examples of tern

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The endangered Piping Plover and some tern species rely on beaches for nesting.
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I am aganst the term retarded, no one should be useing that tern toawards anyone.
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Tern and Swift were built with steam engines, but converted to diesel in the 1950s.
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Big, ghostly egrets, a regally strutting blue heron, a darting Caspian tern.
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In summer, redshanks, lapwings, common tern and reed-bed birds breed here.
From the independent.co.uk
An endangered least tern chick hides in the shadow of a shallow ditch.
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A least tern chick only a few days old lies flat near an egg on the sand.
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I write well while making right hand turns avoiding the tern in the middle of the road.
From the eatocracy.cnn.com
Without the fairy tern as their trump card, he doubts the opponents would stand a chance.
From the nzherald.co.nz
More examples
  • Small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail
  • The Trans-European road network (TERN) was defined by Council Decision 93/629/EEC of October 29, 1993, and is a project to improve the internal road infrastructure of the European Union (EU). The TERN project is one of several Trans-European Transport Networks.
  • Terns are seabirds in the family Sternidae, previously considered a subfamily (Sterninae) of the gull family Laridae (van Tuinen et al., 2004). They form a lineage with the gulls and skimmers which in turn is related to skuas and auks. Terns have a worldwide distribution.
  • Any of various sea birds of the family Sternidae that are similar to gulls but are smaller, more elegant and have a forked tail
  • A type of bird - 8 misses