Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Fulmar

Fulmar (fulmar) , noun

[Icelandic fūlmār. See foul, and Man a gull.]

(Zoology) One of several species of sea birds, of the family Procellariida, allied to the albatrosses and petrels. Among the well-known species are the arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) (called also fulmar petrel, malduck, and mollemock), and the giant fulmar (Ossifraga gigantea).