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Albatross vs Mollymawk - What's the difference?

albatross | mollymawk |

As nouns the difference between albatross and mollymawk

is that albatross is any of various large seabirds of the family Diomedeidae ranging widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific and having a hooked beak and long narrow wings while mollymawk is any of a group of medium-sized albatrosses in the genus Thalassarche.

albatross

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Any of various large seabirds of the family Diomedeidae ranging widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific and having a hooked beak and long narrow wings.
  • (golf) A double eagle, or three under par on any one hole.
  • (idiomatic) A long-term impediment, burden, or curse.
  • * 2006 March 13, (Richard Lugar), speech to the (Brookings Institution),
    • energy is the albatross of U.S. national security.

    Synonyms

    * (seabird) gooney bird, gooney, goonie * (impediment)albatross around one's neck

    Noun

  • an (l) (a large oceanic bird of the Southern Hemisphere )
    • ----

    mollymawk

    English

    (wikipedia mollymawk) (wikispecies)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of a group of medium-sized albatrosses in the genus Thalassarche .

    • Synonyms

    *mallemuck (obsolete )