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词汇 diving petrel
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Definition of diving petrel in English:

diving petrel

noun
  • A small stocky seabird resembling an auk, with black upper parts and white underparts. It frequents southern oceans.

    鹈燕

    Family Pelecanoididae and genus Pelecanoides: four species, in particular the common (or northern) diving petrel (P. urinatrix)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Morphologically, the diving petrels resemble northern auks much more than they resemble other procellariiform birds.
    • Albatross, cape pigeons, diving petrels, monymawks, mottled petrels, and sooty shearwaters all took their turns skimming our bow wave for fish.
    • As expected groups such as the albatrosses, diving petrels, gadfly petrels, prions, and shearwaters were all monophyletic.

Definition of diving petrel in US English:

diving petrel

noun
  • A small stocky seabird resembling an auk, with black upper parts and white underparts. It frequents southern oceans.

    鹈燕

    Family Pelecanoididae and genus Pelecanoides: four species, in particular the common (or northern) diving petrel (P. urinatrix)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Morphologically, the diving petrels resemble northern auks much more than they resemble other procellariiform birds.
    • As expected groups such as the albatrosses, diving petrels, gadfly petrels, prions, and shearwaters were all monophyletic.
    • Albatross, cape pigeons, diving petrels, monymawks, mottled petrels, and sooty shearwaters all took their turns skimming our bow wave for fish.
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