鴎

Meaning

鴎 centers on a specific seabird: the seagull. The meaning is narrow and concrete, referring to the bird itself.

• 鴎かもめ

  common gull (Larus canus)

• フルマ鴎フルマかもめ

  northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis)

• 大フルマ鴎おおフルマかもめ

  giant petrel (esp. the southern giant petrel, Macronectes giganteus)

• 斑フルマ鴎まだらフルマかもめ

  Cape pigeon; Cape petrel; pintado petrel (Daption capense)

• 水鴎流すいおうりゅう

  old sword fighting; sword drawing style or school from Shizuoka prefecture

• 白腹盗賊鴎しろはらとうぞくかもめ

  long-tailed jaeger; long-tailed skua (Stercorarius longicaudus)

• 白鴎しろかもめ

  glaucous gull (Larus hyperboreus); burgomaster

• 百合鴎ゆりかもめ

  black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus); hooded gull

• 盗賊鴎とうぞくかもめ

  skua (any bird of family Stercorariidae, incl. the jaegers)

• 笑い鴎わらいかもめ

  laughing gull (Leucophaeus atricilla)

• 背黒鴎せぐろかもめ

  herring gull (Larus argentatus)

• 鴎髱かもめづと

  chignon resembling a seagull's spread tail feathers (Edo-period women's hairstyle)

• 黄足背黒鴎きあしせぐろかもめ

  Caspian gull (Larus cachinnans)

• 黒盗賊鴎くろとうぞくかもめ

  parasitic jaeger; Arctic skua (Stercorarius parasiticus)

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