gadfly petrel

noun

A petrel of the genus Pterodroma.

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Meanings

noungadfly petrel (plural gadfly petrels)

plural gadfly petrels

  1. A petrel of the genus Pterodroma.

    The taiko, a gadfly petrel from the Chatham Islands near to New Zealand, was well known to islanders during the nineteenth century, being used by them as a food resource.

    2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 61

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
mollemoke

Translations

Finnish viistäjä
  • viistäjäpetrel of the genus Pterodroma
Russian тайфунник
  • тайфунник (tajfunnik)petrel of the genus Pterodroma
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