mutton bird

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English - English
Any of various seabirds whose flesh is said to taste like mutton when cooked, especially Puffinus griseus, Puffinus tenuirostris, or a petrel of the genus Pterodroma

The oil he sprayed on his customers was derived from the oil glands of mutton birds hunted in the islands of the Bass Strait by the descendants of nineteenth-century sailors and the Tasmanian Aboriginal women they had kidnapped.

mutton birds
plural form of mutton bird
mutton bird

    Hyphenation

    mut·ton Bird

    Turkish pronunciation

    mʌtın bırd

    Pronunciation

    /ˈmətən ˈbərd/ /ˈmʌtən ˈbɜrd/
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