# hagdon

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus, especially, Ardenna gravis (syn. Puffinus gravis, Puffinus major), the great shearwater, and Puffinus stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater.

## Etymology
Unknown. Compare later haglet (“shearwater, petrel”). Attested (as hagden) from the 17th century.

## Source
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