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Definition of Stormy petrel
1. Noun. Sooty black petrel with white markings; of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean.
Generic synonyms: Storm Petrel
Group relationships: Genus Hydrobates, Hydrobates
Definition of Stormy petrel
1. Noun. The storm petrel ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stormy Petrel
Literary usage of Stormy petrel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"THE stormy petrel A THOUSAND miles from land are we, Tossing about on the roaring
sea; From billow to bounding billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy ..."
2. The Birds of Jamaica: Being a History of the Bird, Its Structure, and Habits by Philip Henry Gosse, Alfred Edmund Brehm, Richard Hill (1874)
"THE stormy petrel ... The stormy petrel finds a home,— A home, if such a place
may be, For her who lives on the wide wide sea, On the craggy ice, ..."
3. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1921)
"... LEE^-stormy petrel OF THE REVOLUTION.* BY EDWARD ROBINS, MA Major-General
Charles Lee, about whom I have the honour to speak to you this evening, ..."
4. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"41. Cape of Storms. So Bartholomew Diaz named the south cape of Africa In I486,
but King John II. changed it into the Cape of Good Hope. stormy petrel (.1). ..."
5. Birds that Hunt and are Hunted: Life Histories of One Hundred and Seventy by Neltje Blanchan (1904)
"Some white eggs received from Greenland are thought to belong to this species.
Wilson's stormy petrel (Oceanites ..."
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