Definitions for fulmar

fulmar ful·mar

Spelling: [foo l-mer]
IPA: /ˈfʊl mər/

Fulmar is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 100 anagrams from letters in fulmar (aflmru).

Definitions for fulmar

noun

  1. any of certain oceanic birds of the petrel family, especially Fulmarus glacialis, a gull-like Arctic species.

Origin of fulmar

1690-1700; orig. dial. (Hebrides) Icelandic fūl stinking, foul + mār gull (with reference to its stench)

Examples for fulmar

The fulmar petrel is indeed a child of the sea, for, except in the breeding season, it never comes to land.

The earth was blue with summer, and the fulmar cried noisily on the bird cliff.

One of the names given to the fulmar, Procellaria glacialis.

Finally, at the breaking up of the ice in the spring a fulmar flew from over the ice and wooed Sedna with enticing song.

The fulmar is extremely gregarious during the breeding season, and many thousands of birds congregate here during the summer.

A sea-bird; the Procellaria glacialis, called also fulmar (which see).

The story begins when the fulmar carries Sedna to his home and she discovers that he has brought her to a very wretched tent.

That day we saw our first bird; a fulmar (Procellaria glacialis).

He killed the fulmar, took Sedna into his boat, and they quickly left the country which had brought so much sorrow to Sedna.

Owing to the rankness of its food, the smell of the fulmar is very offensive.

Word Value for fulmar
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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