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Noun: tern  turn
  1. Small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail
    "Arctic terns make the longest migration of any animal, flying from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back each year"

Sounds like: Tunney, tunny

Derived forms: terns

Type of: larid

Part of: Sterninae, subfamily Sterninae

Encyclopedia: Tern, Little