Definition of "murres" []

• Plural form of murre. (noun)

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• "Historically, seabirds were an important component of the subsistence lifestyle for coastal peoples, but today seabird harvesting for birds and eggs is much less widespread, although improved hunting technologies have tended to increase harvests on species such as murres [31]."
• "The ones with thin bills? they are guillemots, "murres" as we call them in Devon: but in some places they call them "marrocks," from what they say."
• "Thousands of murres stood on narrow ledges, faces to the wall, each protecting its one egg."