petrel
See also: pétrel
English
Giant petrel
Etymology
From ealier pitteral. Perhaps a diminutive of Peter, with reference to St. Peter's walking on the water (Matthew 14:29).
(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Pronunciation
- enPR: pĕt'rəl, IPA(key): /ˈpɛtɹəl/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Homophone: petrol
Noun
petrel (plural petrels)
- Any of various species of black, grey, or white seabirds in the order Procellariiformes.
Derived terms
terms derived from petrel (noun)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- South Georgia diving petrel
- Stejneger's petrel
- storm petrel
- stormy petrel
- Swinhoe's storm petrel
- Tahiti petrel
- Tristram's storm petrel
- wedge-rumped storm petrel
- white-bellied storm petrel
- white-chinned petrel
- white-faced storm petrel
- white-headed petrel
- white-necked petrel
- white-vented storm petrel
- Wilson's petrel
- Wilson's storm petrel
- Wilson's storm Petrel
- Zino's petrel
Translations
Procellariiformes
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References
petrel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Procellariiformes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Category:Procellariiformes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
Romanian
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peˈtɾel/ [peˈt̪ɾel]
- Rhymes: -el
- Syllabification: pe‧trel
Descendants
- → Catalan: petrell
Further reading
- “petrel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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