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PROCELLARIIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Procellariidae mean?
• PROCELLARIIDAE (noun)
The noun PROCELLARIIDAE has 1 sense:
1. petrels; fulmars; shearwaters
Familiarity information: PROCELLARIIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Petrels; fulmars; shearwaters
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Procellariidae; Procellariidae
Hypernyms ("Procellariidae" is a kind of...):
bird family (a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)
Meronyms (members of "Procellariidae"):
petrel (relatively small long-winged tube-nosed bird that flies far from land)
genus Procellaria; Procellaria (type genus of the Procellariidae)
genus Macronectes; Macronectes (giant petrels)
Fulmarus; genus Fulmarus (fulmars)
genus Puffinus; Puffinus (shearwaters)
Holonyms ("Procellariidae" is a member of...):
order Procellariiformes; Procellariiformes (petrels; albatrosses; shearwaters; diving petrels)
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