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Meaning of ternery | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
tɜːnəɹi

Definitions

A colony of terns.

Examples

“Altogether Harvie-Brown has visited a great many Hebridean terneries, and paid special attention to their inhabitants.”
“The reason dead fish are so often found in a ternery is that these are the ones that have proved to be too much for the chicks to swallow.”

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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