alcid

From scientific Latin Alcidae.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈal.sɪd/

alcid (plural alcids)

1. (ornithology) A bird of the family Alcidae, including auks, auklets, razorbills, dovekies, guillemots, and puffins.
   • 1977, Jan Hanzák, Jiří Formánek, translated by Olga Kuthanová, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Birds, London, published 1992, page 177:

     Some alcids remain underwater as long as two minutes, exceptionally even longer, and dive to depths of thirty metres.

• -cidal, Lacid, calid, cladi