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 →

2) Seabirds often nest on cliffs, rocks or islands and fly far over the water. tree →

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 →
• The cliffs were white with nesting seabirds. tree →
• Gulls and terns are common seabirds on our coast. tree →
• Plastic rubbish in the sea can hurt seabirds. tree →
• We counted twelve seabirds on the rocks. tree →
• The albatross is a seabird with very long wings. tree →
• Please do not feed the seabirds your sandwich. tree →
• Puffins are small seabirds with bright beaks. tree →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «seabird» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.