Usually means: Migratory seabird, burrows, Southern Hemisphere.
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General (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. short-tailed shearwater: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. short-tailed shearwater, short-tailed shearwater: Collins English Dictionary
  3. short-tailed shearwater: Dictionary.com
  4. Short-tailed shearwater: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. short-tailed shearwater: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. short-tailed shearwater, Short-tailed shearwater: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wikipedia (Short-tailed shearwater)

noun:  The short-tailed shearwater or slender-billed shearwater (Ardenna tenuirostris; formerly Puffinus tenuirostris), also called yolla or moonbird, and commonly known as the muttonbird in Australia, is the most abundant seabird species in Australian waters, and is one of the few Australian native birds in which the chicks are commercially harvested.


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