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Word | Petrel |
relatively small long-winged tube-nosed bird that flies far from land / Any one of numerous species of longwinged sea birds belonging to the family Procellaridae. The small petrels, or Mother Carey's chickens, belong to Oceanites, Oceanodroma, Procellaria, and several allied genera. / a small seabird with long wings / a seabird related to the shearwaters, typically flying far from land., | |
Usage | ⇒ I saw some petrels on the sea-shore ⇒ While there are few wild animals in Iceland, there is abundant birdlife - ducks, geese and, among the many sea-birds I spotted, petrels , puffins, tern, gannets, skuas and shearwaters. |
Synonyms | cormorant, gannet, pelican, albatross, bird, bird type, cutwater, fulmar, game bird, magpie, sea bird, seabird, stormy petrel, auk, death watch, fog-signal, foghorn, fulmar petrel, gathering clouds, giant fulmar, |
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