murre

Unknown, possibly imitative of the birds' call.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɜː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mɝ/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
• Homophones: murr, myrrh

murre (plural murres)

1. Any seabird of the genus Uria in the family Alcidae (the auks).
   • 1990, David G. Ainley, Seabirds of the Farallon Islands: Ecology, Dynamics, and Structure of an Upwelling-System Community, page 252,

     It may be that in one year alone, the Farallon murre population was reduced to the level at which it stood during the mid-1990s

   • 1997, Robert Wayne Campbell, Neil K. Dawe, The Birds of British Columbia, Volume 2: Nonpasserines: Diurnal birds of prey through woodpeckers, page 296,

     About 2,800 pairs of Common Murres breed in the province, most of which are in the Scott Islands off northwestern Vancouver Island.

   • 2000, Susan Allport, The Primal Feast: Food, Sex, Foraging, and Love, 2003, paperback, page 52,

     Staking out a spot involves not only the appropriate level of murre aggression (some murres are so aggressive that they throw their mates off the ledge) but, even more fundamentally, the ability to find food efficiently.

• (any bird of genus Uria): guillemot

• thick-billed murre (Uria lomvia)
• common murre (Uria aalge)

• merganser
• razorbill (relative)

• Rumer

murre (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. dialect

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

murtaa +‎ -e

murre

1. dialect

Probably from the verb murista (“to growl”)

murre

1. (dialectal) dog, pooch

murre

1. First-person singular present of murren.
2. Imperative singular of murren.
3. First-person singular subjunctive I of murren.
4. Third-person singular subjunctive I of murren.

murre

1. dialect

murre

1. Alternative form of mirre