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noun heavy short-tailed oceanic bird of polar regions
originFrom Icelandic fúlmár, from Old Norse fúlmár, from Old Norse fúll (“foul”) + már (“gull, mew”) (see English mew), evidently in reference to the foul-smelling vomit it ejects to deter predators.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0