/
ˈalbətrɒs/
n.
 (pl. albatrosses)
   - a very large seabird with long, narrow wings, found chiefly in the southern oceans. 
[Genera Diomedea and Phoebetria.]
 - a burden or encumbrance (in allusion to Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner).
 - Golf  a double eagle.
 
Etymology
C17: alt. (influenced by L. albus ‘white’) of C16 alcatras, applied to various seabirds, from Sp. and Port. alcatraz, from Arab. al-ġaṭṭās ‘the diver’.