Usually means: A seabird with forked tail.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. tern: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tern: Merriam-Webster
  3. tern, tern: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tern, tern: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tern: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tern: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tern, Tern, tern: Wordnik
  8. tern: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tern: Wiktionary
  10. tern: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tern: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tern: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tern: Dictionary.com
  14. tern: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Tern (company), Tern (disambiguation), Tern: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tern: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tern: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tern: Rhymezone
  19. Tern: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tern: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. tern: FreeDictionary.org
  22. tern: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. tern: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. tern: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tern-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tern: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. tern: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. TERN: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tern: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tern: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See terning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Any of various seabirds of the subfamily Sternidae (of the family Laridae) that are similar to gulls but are smaller and have a forked tail.
noun:  (dated or obsolete) A thing with three components; a set of three things.
noun:  (gambling, dated) A lottery prize resulting from the favourable combination of three numbers in the draw.
adjective:  (chiefly botany, rare) Consisting of three components; ternate, threefold, triple.
noun:  The River Tern, a river in Shropshire, England, which joins the Severn at Atcham.

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