aquatic birds related to the loons.
large aquatic birds: loons and some extinct forms.
small compact-bodied almost completely aquatic bird that builds floating nests; similar to loons but smaller and with lobate rather than webbed feet.
Against Type: Pleasence's casting in the Halloween series as the creepy but heroic Doctor Loomis stemmed a long sequence of films in which he played a series of mad professors and homicidal loons.
A boy could go to the pond and lie on his back against the seat of a boat, lazily drifting from shore to shore while the 1 loons dived and the swallows dipped around him.
