Usually means: Large seabird, known for diving.
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  1. gannet: Merriam-Webster
  2. gannet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gannet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gannet: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gannet: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gannet, gannet: Wordnik
  7. gannet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gannet: Wiktionary
  9. gannet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gannet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gannet: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gannet, gannet: Dictionary.com
  13. Gannet (disambiguation), Gannet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Gannet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. gannet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. gannet: Rhymezone
  17. Gannet: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. gannet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. gannet: FreeDictionary.org
  20. gannet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. gannet: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. gannet: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. gannet: Encyclopedia

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Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. gannet: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. gannet: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. gannet: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  Any of three species of large seabird in the genus Morus, of the family Sulidae. They have black and white bodies and long pointed wings, and hunt for fish by plunge diving and pursuing their prey underwater.
▸ noun:  (chiefly British, South Africa) A voracious eater; a glutton.
▸ verb:  (chiefly transitive, informal, British) To wolf down, gobble or eat (something) voraciously.

Similar:
northern gannet, gannetry, merganser, flying gurnard, goosander, cormorant, gade, common mora, gurnard, sea raven, more...

Phrases:
northern gannet, booby gannet, Fairey Gannet, Fairey Gannet AEW.3, more...

Adjectives:
young, northern, atlantic, north, australasian, australian, white, male, african, south, wild

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Similar:
northern gannet, gannetry, merganser, flying gurnard, goosander, cormorant, gade, common mora, gurnard, sea raven, more...

Phrases:
northern gannet, booby gannet, Fairey Gannet, Fairey Gannet AEW.3, more...

Adjectives:
young, northern, atlantic, north, australasian, australian, white, male, african, south, wild

Colors:
    white,     black,     gray,     blue,     yellow, more...



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