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stormpetrel

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storm petrel

–noun
any of several small, tube-nosed seabirds of the family Hydrobatidae, usually having black or sooty-brown plumage with a white rump.
Also, storm-petrel.
Compare stormy petrel.


Origin:
1795–1805
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