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# seabird

noun (a seabird, seabirds)

«seabird» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A seabird is a bird that lives near the sea and finds most of its food in the sea, such as a gull, a puffin, a tern or an albatross. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seabird/#m1)
2. Seabirds often nest on cliffs, rocks or islands and fly far over the water. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seabird/#m2)

### In the lessons

In science lessons about habitats and food chains, seabirds eat fish and are part of the ocean food web; in stories at the beach they swoop, cry and steal chips. Phrases: «flock of seabirds», «seabird colony», «nesting seabirds».

### Examples

- A seabird dived into the waves and came up with a fish. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seabird/#x1)
- The cliffs were white with nesting seabirds. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seabird/#x2)
- Gulls and terns are common seabirds on our coast. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seabird/#x3)
- Plastic rubbish in the sea can hurt seabirds. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seabird/#x4)
- We counted twelve seabirds on the rocks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seabird/#x5)
- The albatross is a seabird with very long wings. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seabird/#x6)
- Please do not feed the seabirds your sandwich. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seabird/#x7)
- Puffins are small seabirds with bright beaks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seabird/#x8)

### Note

Countable noun, one word: «a seabird, two seabirds». Not every bird at the beach is a seabird: pigeons and sparrows live on land. In counting problems each seabird is one item, like any animal.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «seabird» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seabird/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«seabird» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/seabird.html) on Mova free.