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petrels

petrels is the plural of petrel.

Meaning of petrel

Noun

petrel (plural petrels)

  1. 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....

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Questions about petrels

What is petrels the plural of?
Petrels is the plural of petrel.

Words near petrels in the dictionary

  1. Petrees
  2. petreg
  3. petrel
  4. Petrella
  5. Petrellas
  6. petrels
  7. Petrenko
  8. Petrenkos
  9. petrescence
  10. petrescent
  11. Petrescu

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