fulmar
/ˈfʊlmɑː(ɹ)/noun
fulmar is a noun meaning “Either of two species of pelagic seabird in the genus Fulmarus, Fulmarus glacialis and F. glacialoides, which breed on cliffs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-L-M-A-R, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fulmar is fulmars.
What does fulmar mean?
noun
- 1
Either of two species of pelagic seabird in the genus Fulmarus, Fulmarus glacialis and F. glacialoides, which breed on cliffs.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fulmar?
- /ˈfʊlmɑː(ɹ)/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-fulmar.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fulmar
- fulmars plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fulmar?
Fulmar appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Fulmar in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense seabird in the genus Fulmarus:
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Where does fulmar come from?
From Icelandic fúlmár, from Old Norse fúlmár, from Old Norse fúll (“foul”) + már (“gull, mew”) (see English mew), evidently in reference to the foul-smelling vomit it ejects to deter predators.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).