MOTHER CAREY'S HEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mother Carey's hen mean? 

• MOTHER CAREY'S HEN (noun)
  The noun MOTHER CAREY'S HEN has 1 sense:

1. medium-sized storm petrel

  Familiarity information: MOTHER CAREY'S HEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOTHER CAREY'S HEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Medium-sized storm petrel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Mother Carey's chicken; Mother Carey's hen; Oceanites oceanicus

Hypernyms ("Mother Carey's hen" is a kind of...):

storm petrel (any of various small petrels having dark plumage with paler underparts)

Holonyms ("Mother Carey's hen" is a member of...):

genus Oceanites; Oceanites (a genus of Hydrobatidae)