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STORM PETREL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various small petrels having dark plumage with paler underparts
Classified under:
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)
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