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Definition of: petrel
(pet′rəl) noun
A long-winged, black-and-white sea bird (order Procelariiformes); Mother Carey's chicken. [Earlier pitteral,? a dim. of PETER; from its seeming to walk on the water like St. Peter. Matt, xiv 29]
(Body from 7 to 16 inches long; the storm petrel, Mother Carey's chicken, 5 to 6 inches)
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