"calloo" meaning in All languages combined

See calloo on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /kəˈluː/ [UK] Forms: calloos [plural]
Etymology: Imitative of its call. Head templates: {{en-noun}} calloo (plural calloos)
  1. (chiefly Scotland) The long-tailed duck, Clangula hyemalis, an Arctic sea duck. Tags: Scotland Categories (lifeform): Ducks

Inflected forms

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        },
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          "kind": "lifeform",
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            "Poultry",
            "Freshwater birds",
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            "Chordates",
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        {
          "ref": "1989, Elias Lönnrot, translated by Keith Bosley, The Kalevala, section IV:",
          "text": "This is how the luckless feel / how the calloos [translating allit] think— / like hard snow under a ridge / like water in a deep well.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 January 8, Richard Williamson, West Sussex Gazette:",
          "text": "The Scots called it the ‘wild calloo’ from the unearthly call it had which seemed almost to bewitch fisher-folk hunting for herring in calm autumn nights off the Scottish Isles.",
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        }
      ],
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          "long-tailed duck"
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        [
          "Clangula hyemalis",
          "Clangula hyemalis#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "Arctic",
          "Arctic"
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        "(chiefly Scotland) The long-tailed duck, Clangula hyemalis, an Arctic sea duck."
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    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "UK"
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    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
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          "ref": "2012 January 8, Richard Williamson, West Sussex Gazette:",
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        [
          "Arctic",
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      ],
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  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/kəˈluː/",
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    }
  ],
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}

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