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Noun: gooney bird
Usage: N. Amer
  1. A variety of albatross with black feet
    "The gooney bird glided effortlessly above the Pacific waves";
    - black-footed albatross, gooney [N. Amer], goonie [US], goony [US], Diomedea nigripes

Derived forms: gooney birds

Type of: albatross, mollymawk

Part of: genus Diomedea

Encyclopedia: Gooney bird