shearwater

English Thesaurus

1. long-winged oceanic bird that in flight skims close to the waves (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	petrel,
definition	:	relatively small long-winged tube-nosed bird that flies far from land (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	manx shearwater, puffinus puffinus,
definition	:	small black-and-white shearwater common in the northeastern Atlantic (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus puffinus, puffinus,
definition	:	shearwaters (noun.animal)