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tern

noun
🔊/tɜːn/
🔊/tɜːrn/
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  1. a bird with long pointed wings and a tail with two points that lives near the sea燕鸥Topics Birdsc2
    Word Originlate 17th cent.: of Scandinavian origin; related to Danish terne and Swedish tärna, both from Old Norse therna.