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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.”

CEFR level

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

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