Definizione monolingua

albatross

albatross (plural albatross or albatrosses)

1. Any of various large seabirds of the family Diomedeidae ranging widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific and having a hooked beak and long narrow wings.
2. (golf) A double eagle, or three under par on any one hole
3. (idiomatic) A long-term impediment, burden, or curse.
   • 2006 March 13, Richard Lugar, speech to the Brookings Institution,

     […] energy is the albatross of U.S. national security.

Definizione dizionario albatross

	albatros
	seabird

	albatro
	seabird

diomedeidae

Altri significati:

three under par

Any of various large seabirds of the family Diomedeidae ranging widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific and having a hooked beak and long narrow wings.

albatross (esp. the short-tailed albatross, Phoebastria albatrus)

(golf) A double eagle, or three under par on any one hole

Large sea bird, found chiefly in the southern oceans and northern Pacific, which has extraordinary powers of flight.

(idiomatic) A long-term impediment, burden, or curse.