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# seabird

«seabird» in Mova's school dictionary: **a bird that lives near the sea and finds most of its food…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a seabird, seabirds)

### meaning for a pupil

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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seabird/#m2)

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

### In the corpora

- [Oil spills poison seas and coasts and kill seabirds, fish and other wildlife.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/59-coal-oil-and-gas/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «seabird» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seabird/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.