Word.ws English Dictionary

gadfly petrel

gadfly petrel noun: a petrel of the genus Pterodroma.

gadfly petrel: a petrel of the genus Pterodroma
Image: JJ Harrison, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

gadfly petrel (plural gadfly petrels)

  1. A petrel of the genus Pterodroma.
    • The taiko, a gadfly petrel from the Chatham Islands near to New Zealand, was well known to islanders during the nineteenth century, being used by them as a food resource.2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 61

Forms of gadfly petrel

pluralgadfly petrels

Questions about gadfly petrel

What does gadfly petrel mean?
Gadfly petrel means a petrel of the genus Pterodroma.
What part of speech is gadfly petrel?
Gadfly petrel is a noun.
What is the plural of gadfly petrel?
The plural of gadfly petrel is gadfly petrels.

Words near gadfly petrel in the dictionary

  1. Gadeas
  2. Gaden
  3. gades
  4. gadflies
  5. gadfly
  6. gadfly petrel
  7. gadfly petrels
  8. gadge
  9. gadger
  10. gadgers
  11. gadges

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gadfly petrel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “gadfly petrel.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/gadfly_petrel. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.