Mandt's guillemot

noun

ˈmänts-

: a guillemot that constitutes the northern subspecies (Cepphus grylle mandtii) of the black guillemot of the north Atlantic

Word History

Etymology

after Martin Wilhelm von Mandt †1858 German physician and naturalist

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