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From scientific Latin Alcidae.

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alcid (plural alcids)

  1. (ornithology) A bird of the family Alcidae, including auks, auklets, razorbills, dovekies, guillemots, and puffins.
    • 1977, Jan Hanzák, Jiří Formánek, translated by Olga Kuthanová, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Birds, London, published 1992, page 177:
      Some alcids remain underwater as long as two minutes, exceptionally even longer, and dive to depths of thirty metres.

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