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gadfly petrels

gadfly petrels is the plural of gadfly petrel.

Meaning of gadfly petrel

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

Questions about gadfly petrels

What is gadfly petrels the plural of?
Gadfly petrels is the plural of gadfly petrel.

Words near gadfly petrels in the dictionary

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

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