fulmar

From Old Norse fúll (“foul”) + már (“gull”) (cognate to English mew), evidently in reference to the foul-smelling vomit it ejects to deter predators.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʊlmɑː(ɹ)/

fulmar (plural fulmars)

1. Either of two species of pelagic seabird in the genus Fulmarus, Fulmarus glacialis and F. glacialoides, which breed on cliffs.
   • 2004, Anne Birgitte Gotfredsen, Tinna Møbjerg, Nipisat - A Saqqaq Culture Site in Sisimiut, Central West Greenland, page 104:

     In the southern districts, the Inuit hunted fulmars with bird darts from kayaks (Helms 1926). The Nipisat people may have hunted fulmar and great shearwater, probably using similar methods.

   • 2009, Gary Latter, “Scottish Rock”, in North, volume 2, page 383:

     In particular, fulmars have the distinctive trait of vomiting half-digested fish oil when approached on the nest and should be given a wide berth wherever possible.

   • 2010, Roger D. Taylor, Mingming & the Art of Minimal Ocean Sailing, page 290:

     And why oh why is it always bloody fulmars following us about? Have they got nothing better to do, these silly lickspittle fulmars, than to ape every petty twist and turn of our hollow peregrinations? I'm sick of fulmars.

• fulmar-petrel
• stinker

• northern fulmar (F. glacialis)
• southern fulmar (F. glacioides)
• fulmar prion

• Fulmarus
• fulmar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Fulmarus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Fulmarus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• Fulmar in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

• armful

Borrowed from English fulmar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [fulˈmar]

fulmar m (plural fulmars)

1. fulmar

• “fulmar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

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• IPA^(key): /ˈful.mar/
• Rhymes: -ulmar
• Syllabification: ful‧mar

fulmar m animal

1. fulmar

• fulmar in Polish dictionaries at PWN

fulmar m (plural fulmares)

1. fulmar (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)

   Synonym: pardelão

• IPA^(key): /fulˈmaɾ/ [fulˈmaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ful‧mar

fulmar m or f (masculine and feminine plural fulmares)

1. fulmarine

fulmar m (plural fulmares)

1. fulmar

• “fulmar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024