noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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The great auk is one of the few creatures whose final hours can be documented with such certainty.
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The feather trade in great auks , eider, and other sea birds has been mentioned earlier.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In spring those cliffs are alive with auks and gulls, and my favourite bird, the gannet.
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Much the smallest and shortest-billed auk , also the smallest diving seabird.
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Neither formation provides ledges of any size or permanence, although small auk populations once nested on the chalk cliffs.
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The feather trade in great auks, eider, and other sea birds has been mentioned earlier.
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The great auk is one of the few creatures whose final hours can be documented with such certainty.
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The least sociable auk , breeding in very loose colonies, in crevices of cliffs and rocks.
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Two auks, blinking, waddled foolishly across the ledge.
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Where had our gull and our auk spent the summer?