Cassin

[ ka-san ]

noun

1. Re·né [r, uh, -, ney], 1887–1976, French diplomat and human-rights advocate: at the United Nations 1946–68; Nobel Peace Prize 1968.

Example Sentences

Interest in the subject has accelerated because of die-offs of some of the puffin’s auk family relatives, such ascommon murres and Cassin’s auklets off the West Coast.

From Seattle Times

A 2018 study led by Julia Parrish, professor in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the UW, found The Blob killed thousands of Cassin’s auklets, small gray seabirds which starved to death.

From Seattle Times

Climate-related losses have, for example, hit albatrosses in the central Pacific, common murres and Cassin’s auklets along the U.S.

From Seattle Times

Ms. Nelson and Mr. Morrison returned from India and, on Denali in Alaska, climbed Cassin Ridge and skied down the Messner Couloir.

From New York Times

Two weeks after returning to the United States, they climbed the Cassin Ridge, a highly technical route on Denali in Alaska, skiing down the mountain’s Messner face in what has been lauded as one of North America’s top ski mountaineering feats.

From New York Times