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Petrel

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Noun

1. petrel

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Petrel

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noun
any oceanic bird of the order Procellariiformes, having a hooked bill and tubular nostrils: includes albatrosses, storm petrels, and shearwaters
See also storm petrel

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Petrel

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noun
a member of any of three families (esp. Procellariidae) of small, marine tubenose birds with long wings, including storm petrels and shearwaters

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Petrel

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n.
Any of various black, gray, or white pelagic seabirds of the order Procellariiformes, found mostly in the Southern Hemisphere.

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