Usually means: Seabirds known for long migrations.
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  1. terns: Merriam-Webster
  2. terns: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. terns: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. terns: Wiktionary
  7. terns: Dictionary.com
  8. Terns: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Tern)

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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