stormy petrel

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• Stormy

  ·superl Violent; passionate; rough; as, stormy passions. II. Stormy ·superl Proceeding from violent...

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• Petrel

  ·noun Any one of numerous species of longwinged sea birds belonging to the family Procellaridae. The...

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• petrel

  The Cypselli of the ancients, and Mother Cary's chickens of sailors; of the genus Procellaria. They ...

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• dove-petrel

  n. a well-known English bird-name.The species in the-Southern Seas are – – Prion turtur, Smith. ♣ ...

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• cape-petrel

  See cape-pigeon ...

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