(n.) A name given to various species of arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae. The great auk, now extinct, is Alca (/ Plautus) impennis. The razor-billed auk is A. torda. See Puffin, Guillemot, and Murre.
Example Sentences:
(1) Now Google might be required to undo the changes – although Auke Haagsma, a lawyer advising the lobby group Icomp , which is critical of Google's policies, said that would be like trying to "unscramble the egg".
(2) AUK Broughton meet Lokomotiva Zagreb and Bala Town will face FC Differdange 03 of Luxembourg while Newtown AFC were paired with Maltese side Valletta.
(3) Renal coccidiosis is reported for the first time in an auk (Alcidae).
(4) It means "great" as in "great crested newt" or "great auk" or "Greater London".
(5) One hundred twenty-five walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) were collected from Auke Bay, Alaska (USA) in 1985 and examined for histologic evidence of disease-causing infectious agents in 1987.
(6) Four of the species extinct in England also became extinct globally: the penguin-like great auk; Mitten's beardless moss; York groundsel, a weed only discovered in the 1970s; and the Ivell's sea anemone, last seen in a lagoon near Chichester.
(7) This work has shown that in many colonial nesting birds (for example auks, terns, gulls, gannets and penguins) brief calls of a half-second duration or less can have enough acoustic detail not only to serve as labels identifying the calling species but also to label the individual caller.
(8) And there on a shelf is a familiar outline, its beak heavy and lined with down-curving grooves – the only known specimen of a juvenile great auk.