shearwater
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Etymology
Noun
shearwater (plural shearwaters)
- Any of the long-winged pelagic seabirds of the family Procellariidae in genera Puffinus, Ardenna, and Calonectris, that breed on islands and coastal cliffs.
- 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 53):
- At first I would not eat a frigate bird, a booby or a shearwater, but after a few months on the island I tried one broiled over coconut-shell coals, and I have never since missed an opportunity for such a feast.
- 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 53):
- (by extension) Any of the entire family Procellariidae, including certain of the petrels.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- Audubon's shearwater(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace
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- Balearic shearwater(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace
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with a regular link if already defined. Add novern=1 if not defined.) (Puffinus mauretanicus) - Bannerman's shearwater (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template., Puffinus bannermani)
- Barolo shearwater (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template., Puffinus baroli)
- black-vented shearwater (Puffinus opisthomelas)
- Boyd's shearwater (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template., Puffinus boydi)
- Bryan's shearwater (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- Buller's shearwater (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- Cape Verde shearwater (Calonectris edwardsii)
- Christmas shearwater (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- Cory's shearwater (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- flesh-footed shearwater (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- fluttering shearwater (Puffinus gavia)
- Galápagos shearwater (Puffinus subalaris)
- great shearwater (Ardenna gravis, formerly Puffinus gravis)
- Hawaiian shearwater (Puffinus newelli)
- Heinroth's shearwater (Puffinus heinrothi)
- Hutton's shearwater (Puffinus huttoni)
- lava shearwater (†Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- little shearwater (Puffinus assimilis)
- Macronesian shearwater (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template. or Puffinus baroli)
- Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus)
- Newell's shearwater (Puffinus newelli)
- Olson's shearwater (†Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- Persian shearwater (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template. or Puffinus persicus)
- pink-footed shearwater (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- Scopoli's shearwater (Calonectris diomedea)
- short-tailed shearwater (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- sooty shearwater (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- streaked shearwater (Calonectris leucomelas)
- subantarctic shearwater (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- Townsend's shearwater (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- tropical shearwater (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template. or Puffinus bailloni)
- wedge-tailed shearwater (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- Yelkouan shearwater (Puffinus yelkouan)
Translations
seabird
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References
- shearwater on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Procellariidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Procellariidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies