Definitions for murres

murres murre

Spelling: [mur]
IPA: /mɜr/

Murres is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in murres (emrrsu).

Definitions for murres

noun

  1. either of two black and white diving birds of the genus Uria, of northern seas, U. aalge (common murre) or U. lomvia (thick-billed murre)
  2. razor-billed auk.

Origin of murres

First recorded in 1595-1605; origin uncertain

Examples for murres

The gull begins to lay about the middle of May, and usually ten days before the murre.

When the mouthe turneth in speakinge it is a sygne that it is infected with some catarre or murre as is manyfest ynough.

The murre does not fly high, nor is it a very active bird, or apparently of long flight.

Murrain (or morena in Latin chronicles) is probably the modern survival of mure or murre.

Coolidge's party went to the murre Rocks, where the Guillemots breed, and brought about fifteen hundred eggs.

In the fifteenth century the English name was mure or murre, which appears to be the same root as in murrain.

The Leach's Petrel, murre, and some other sea birds, have but one egg.

The gull is soon through, but the murre continues to lay for about two months.

Word Value for murres
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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