" albatross "

[Noun]  | "al*ba*tross" | \ ˈal-bə-ˌtrȯs \

1: any of a family (Diomedeidae) of large web-footed seabirds that have long slender wings, are excellent gliders, and include the largest seabirds

2: something that causes persistent deep concern or anxiety

3: something that greatly hinders accomplishment : encumbrance

Origin: 1672 ;

 Earlier albitrosse, albetrosse "albatross, frigate bird," alteration (with the first syllables probably reshaped after Latin albus "white" and its derivatives) of alcatras, alcatrace "pelican, frigate bird," or of its source, 16th-century Italian alcatrazzo (borrowed from Spanish) or Spanish alcatraz "pelican" or Portuguese alcatraz "brown booby (Sula leucogaster), frigate bird," both borrowed from Arabic al-ġaṭṭās "diver, sea eagle," derivative from the base of the verb ġaṭṭa "to immerse, dip, plunge"; (sense 2) after the albatross in Samuel Taylor {see: |Coleridge|Coleridge:b}'s poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," which the mariner kills and is then forced to wear around his neck as expiation for his crime; (sense 3) by analogy with {see: |birdie:1|birdie:1} and {see: |eagle:1|eagle:1} as names for golfing scores;

  * Note : The reflection of Arabic as in Spanish rather than has been explained as through influence of late medieval Spanish alcaduz "bucket of a waterwheel" (later arcaduz), the throat pouch of a pelican suggesting such a bucket.;

[Noun]  | "black-foot*ed albatross" | \ ˈblak-ˌfu̇-təd- \

1: an albatross (Diomedea nigripes) of the Pacific that is chiefly blackish with dusky bill and black feet and legs —called also gooney

Origin: 1839 ;

[Noun]  | "wandering albatross" 

1: a large white albatross (Diomedea exulans) of southern oceans that has black outer wing feathers and a wingspan of about 11 feet (3.4 meters)

Origin: 1836 ;

[Noun]  | "albatross"