petrel
/ˈpɛt.ɹəl/
petrel noun: any of various species of black, grey, or white seabirds in the order Procellariiformes.
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Noun
petrel (plural petrels)
- Any of various species of black, grey, or white seabirds in the order Procellariiformes.
- The seventh of May following, we first saw many Birds in bignesse of Cliffe Pidgeons, and after divers other as Pettrels, Cootes, Hagbuts, Pengwins, Murres, Gannets, Cormorants, Guls, with many else in our English Tongue of no name.1625, Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas his Pilgrimes, The Relation of Captaine GOSNOLS Voyage to the North part of Virginia, begunne the sixe and twentieth of March, Anno 42....
- In a storm they will hover close under the ship's stern in the wake of the ship (as it is called) or the smoothness which the ship's passing has made on the sea; and there as they fly (gently then) they pat the water alternately with their feet as if they walked upon it; though still upon the wing....1703, William Dampier, chapter III, in A Voyage to New Holland, etc. in the Year 1699
petrel meaning in Tamil and Bengali
petrel in Tamil
- நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும் பறவைகளில், இது ஒரு சிறப்பு இனமாகும்
petrel in Bengali
- সামদ্রিক পক্ষিবিশেষ
Forms of petrel
| plural | petrels |
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Origin of petrel
From earlier pitteral. Perhaps a diminutive of Peter, with reference to St. Peter's walking on the water (Matthew 14:29). A derivation from patter or pitter-patter has been suggested, for instance by ornithologist Elliott Ladd Coues.
Words formed from petrel
- Antarctic petrel
- ashy storm petrel
- Atlantic petrel
- Barau's petrel
- Bermuda petrel
- black-bellied storm petrel
- black-capped petrel
- black storm petrel
- black-winged petrel
- blue petrel
- Bonin petrel
- Bulwer's petrel
- cape petrel
- Chatham petrel
- common diving petrel
- Cook's petrel
- dark-rumped petrel
- diving petrel
- European storm petrel
- Fea's petrel
- Fiji petrel
- fork-tailed storm petrel
- fulmarine petrel
- fulmar-petrel
- gadfly petrel
- giant petrel
- Gould's petrel
- great-winged petrel
- grey-backed storm petrel
- Guadalupe storm petrel
- Hawaiian petrel
- herald petrel
- Juan Fernandez petrel
- Kaeding's petrel
- Kerguelen petrel
- Kermadec petrel
- Leach's petrel
- Leach's storm petrel
- least storm petrel
- Madeiran storm petrel
- Madeira petrel
- Magellan diving petrel
- Magenta petrel
- Markham's storm petrel
- Mas a Tierra petrel
- Mascarene petrel
- Matsudaira's storm petrel
- mottled petrel
- Murphy's petrel
- New Zealand storm petrel
- northern giant petrel
- Peruvian diving petrel
- Phoenix petrel
- Polynesian storm petrel
- Providence petrel
- Pycroft's petrel
- ringed storm petrel
- snow petrel
- soft-plumaged petrel
- southern giant petrel
Phrases with petrel
Questions about petrel
- What does petrel mean?
- Petrel means any of various species of black, grey, or white seabirds in the order Procellariiformes.
- What is petrel in Tamil?
- Petrel in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும் பறவைகளில், இது ஒரு சிறப்பு இனமாகும். See Petrel meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is petrel?
- Petrel is a noun.
- How do you pronounce petrel?
- Petrel is pronounced /ˈpɛt.ɹəl/.
- What is the plural of petrel?
- The plural of petrel is petrels.
Words near petrel in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: petrel (page history and authors); petrel (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); petrel (Bengali Wiktionary) (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.
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