skua
noun/ˈskjuːə/
/ˈskjuːə/
- a large brown bird that lives near the sea. It eats fish, which it sometimes takes from other birds.Topics Birdsc2Word Originlate 17th cent.: modern Latin, from Faroese skúvur, from Old Norse skufr (apparently imitative). Faroese is the language of the Faroe Islands.
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