Antarctic petrel
noun
A petrel with white and dark brown plumage, Thalassoica antarctica, which breeds in Antarctica and on some adjacent islands.
Origin
Late 18th century; earliest use found in Georg Forster (1754–1794), traveller and naturalist.
- watch someone like a hawk
- watch spring
- watch the clock
- watch the pennies
- watch the time
- watch the world go by
- watch this space
- watchtower
- watchword
- water
- water adder
- water agrimony
- water aloe
- water antelope
- water apple
- water archer
- water arum
- water ash
- water-ask
- water-attracting
- water authority
- water baby
- water bag
- water-bailage
- water bailie