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PELECANIFORM SEABIRD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large fish-eating seabird with four-toed webbed feet
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pelecaniform seabird" is a kind of...):
sea bird; seabird; seafowl (a bird that frequents coastal waters and the open ocean: gulls; pelicans; gannets; cormorants; albatrosses; petrels; etc.)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pelecaniform seabird"):
pelican (large long-winged warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fish)
frigate bird; man-of-war bird (long-billed warm-water seabird with wide wingspan and forked tail)
gannet (large heavily built seabird with a long stout bill noted for its plunging dives for fish)
cormorant; Phalacrocorax carbo (large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish)
anhinga; darter; snakebird (fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill)
boatswain bird; tropic bird; tropicbird (mostly white web-footed tropical seabird often found far from land)
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