STORM PETREL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does storm petrel mean? 

• STORM PETREL (noun)
  The noun STORM PETREL has 1 sense:

1. any of various small petrels having dark plumage with paler underparts

  Familiarity information: STORM PETREL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STORM PETREL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various small petrels having dark plumage with paler underparts

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("storm petrel" is a kind of...):

petrel (relatively small long-winged tube-nosed bird that flies far from land)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "storm petrel"):

Hydrobates pelagicus; northern storm petrel; stormy petrel (sooty black petrel with white markings; of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean)

Mother Carey's chicken; Mother Carey's hen; Oceanites oceanicus (medium-sized storm petrel)

Holonyms ("storm petrel" is a member of...):

family Hydrobatidae; Hydrobatidae (storm petrels)