Gull relatives

The answer

TERNS

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TERNS answer page.

Used 16 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• SKUAS (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for TERNS

Every other clue in this collection answered by TERNS, most used first.

• Sea birds - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• Sea swallows - used 28 times, most recently in 2024
• Shorebirds - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Shore fliers - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Shore birds - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Gull cousins - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Gull-like birds - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
• Aquatic birds - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• Beach birds - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Fork-tailed fliers - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• Fork-tailed seabirds - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Beach flock - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Gulls' kin - used 6 times, most recently in 2007
• Seabirds - used 6 times, most recently in 2024

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Rabbit relatives - HARES, used 40 times
• Plum relatives - SLOES, used 17 times
• Onion relatives - LEEKS, used 16 times
• Foil relatives - EPEES, used 14 times
• Relatives. - AUNTS, used 12 times
• Bassoon relatives - OBOES, used 11 times

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