procellarian

English

Etymology

From Latin procella (“a storm”).

Noun

procellarian (plural procellarians)

1. (zoology) Any of a family of oceanic birds (Procellaridae) including the petrels, fulmars, and shearwaters.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “procellarian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)