PROCELLARIIFORMES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Procellariiformes mean? 

• PROCELLARIIFORMES (noun)
  The noun PROCELLARIIFORMES has 1 sense:

1. petrels; albatrosses; shearwaters; diving petrels

  Familiarity information: PROCELLARIIFORMES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROCELLARIIFORMES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Petrels; albatrosses; shearwaters; diving petrels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

order Procellariiformes; Procellariiformes

Hypernyms ("Procellariiformes" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Procellariiformes"):

procellariiform seabird (large long-winged bird with hooked bill and tubular nostrils that wanders the open seas)

Diomedeidae; family Diomedeidae (albatrosses)

family Procellariidae; Procellariidae (petrels; fulmars; shearwaters)

family Hydrobatidae; Hydrobatidae (storm petrels)

family Pelecanoididae; Pelecanoididae (diving petrels)

Holonyms ("Procellariiformes" is a member of...):

Aves; class Aves ((ornithology) the class of birds)