mollymawk|mollymawks in English

noun

(also known as an albatross) large sea bird

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1. The four genera are the great Albatrosses (Diomedea), the mollymawks (Thalassarche), the North Pacific Albatrosses (Phoebastria), and the sooty Albatrosses or sooties (Phoebetria

2. Because of their tameness on land, many Albatrosses are known by the common names mollymawk (from the Dutch for “foolish gull”) and gooney.

3. The great Albatrosses are seabirds in the genus Diomedea in the albatross family.The genus Diomedea formerly included all Albatrosses except the sooty Albatrosses, but in 1996 the genus was split, with the mollymawks and the North Pacific Albatrosses both being elevated to separate genera