Antarctic petrel

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Antarctic petrel (plural Antarctic petrels)

  1. A species of petrel, Thalassoica antarctica, which breeds in Antarctica. [from 18th c.]
    • 1773, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 15 December:
      Saw a great number of penguins on an ice island and some Antartick petrels flying about.
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