Definition of Fulmar petrel

1. Noun. Heavy short-tailed oceanic bird of polar regions.

Exact synonyms: Fulmar, Fulmarus Glacialis
Generic synonyms: Petrel
Group relationships: Fulmarus, Genus Fulmarus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fulmar Petrel

fulls
fullscale
fullsome
fulltime
fullwidth
fully
fully-fledged
fully-loaded
fully briefed
fully fashioned
fully fledged
fully grown
fully qualified hostname
fully well
fulmar
fulmar petrel (current term)
fulmars
fulmiaic
fulminant
fulminant hepatitis
fulminant hyperpyrexia
fulminate
fulminate of mercury
fulminated
fulminates
fulminating
fulminating dysentery
fulminating mercury
fulminating smallpox
fulmination

Literary usage of Fulmar petrel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Coloured Illustrations of British Birds, and Their Eggs by Henry Leonard Meyer (1857)
"THE fulmar petrel is an annual visitant on the island of St. Kilda, and some of the other ... The habits of the fulmar petrel are peculiar to itself; ..."

2. St. Kilda by Norman Heathcote (1900)
"I have only once seen one of these birds on the wing, and that fulmar petrel ON NEST was after it had been maintaining n stuffy existence in a man's pocket ..."

3. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"... y Graig of the Welsh; Fulmar and fulmar petrel of the English, by whom it is also named (provincially) M;dle- muck, ..."

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