SEABIRD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seabird mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEABIRD (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 ("seabird" 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 "seabird"):

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)

 Context examples 

If global climate keeps warming at the current rate, we expect emperor penguins in Antarctica to experience an 86% decline by the year 2100, says Stephanie Jenouvrier, a seabird ecologist at WHOI and lead author of the paper.

(Unless warming is slowed, emperor penguins will march toward extinction, National Science Foundation)