SEA BIRD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sea bird mean? 

• SEA BIRD (noun)
  The noun SEA BIRD has 1 sense:

1. a bird that frequents coastal waters and the open ocean: gulls; pelicans; gannets; cormorants; albatrosses; petrels; etc.

  Familiarity information: SEA BIRD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEA BIRD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bird that frequents coastal waters and the open ocean: gulls; pelicans; gannets; cormorants; albatrosses; petrels; etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

sea bird; seabird; seafowl

Hypernyms ("sea bird" is a kind of...):

aquatic bird (wading and swimming and diving birds of either fresh or salt water)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sea bird"):

coastal diving bird (gull family; skimmer family; jaeger family; auk family)

auk (black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas)

puffin (any of two genera of northern seabirds having short necks and brightly colored compressed bills)

gaviiform seabird (seabirds of the order Gaviiformes)

podicipitiform seabird (aquatic birds related to the loons)

pelecaniform seabird (large fish-eating seabird with four-toed webbed feet)

sphenisciform seabird (flightless cold-water seabirds: penguins)

oceanic bird; pelagic bird (bird of the open seas)