Definition of Cahow

1. Noun. An endangered burrowing, nocturnal bird, ''Pterodroma cahow'', from Bermuda; the Bermuda petrel ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cahow

1. a sea bird [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cahow

cagr
cags
cagy
cagyness
cah
cahier
cahiers
cahinca
cahincic acid
cahnite
cahoot
cahootchie
cahooted
cahooting
cahoots
cahow (current term)
cahows
cahs
caicco
caiccos
caid
caids
caillach
caillachs
caille
cailles
caimac
caimacam
caimacams
caimacs

Literary usage of Cahow

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Bermuda Islands: An Account of Their Scenery, Climate, Productions by Addison Emery Verrill (1902)
"We were, much to our regret, unable, for lack of time, to dig for the bones of the cahow on Cooper's Island. Much of the land there is now cultivated. ..."

2. The Ibis by British Ornithologists' Union (1902)
"Verrill on the " cahow " of the Bermudas. [The cahow of the Bermudas, an Extinct bird. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hiit. (7) ix. p. 2Ö.J The "cahow," or ..."

3. Popular Science Monthly (1901)
"THE STORY OF THE cahow. THE MYSTERIOUS EXTINCT BIRD OF THE BERMUDAS. BY PROFESSOR AE VERRILL, YALE UNIVERSITY. WHEN the Bermudas were first visited by ..."

4. Bermuda Past and Present: A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Somers by Walter Brownell Hayward (1910)
"cahow Lake takes its name from the fact that in one of the chambers were found deeply embedded in the calcite bones and fossilized feathers of the cahow, ..."

5. The Naturalist in Bermuda: A Sketch of the Geology, Zoology, and Botany of by John Matthew Jones, John L. Hurdis, John Walter Wedderburn (1859)
"THE cahow. Governor John Smith, in his general History of Virginia, ... The cahow is a bird of the night, for all the day she lies hid in holes in the rocks ..."

6. History of Medina County and Ohio: Containing a History of the State of Ohio by William Henry Perrin, J H Battle, Weston Arthur Goodspeed (1881)
"They were Basley cahow, ... James and George cahow, and with this help we raised both houses in one day. We got a roof on my father's house, and all moved ..."

7. The Naturalist in Bermuda; a Sketch of the Geology, Zoology, and Botany of by John Matthew Jones (1859)
"The cahow is a bird of the night, for all the day she hid in holes in the rocks, where they and their young also taken with as much ease as may be, ..."

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