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Definition of diving petrel in English: diving petrelnoun A small stocky seabird resembling an auk, with black upper parts and white underparts. It frequents southern oceans. 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 petrelnoun A small stocky seabird resembling an auk, with black upper parts and white underparts. It frequents southern oceans. 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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