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PELECANIFORM SEABIRD

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Meaning:

Large fish-eating seabird with four-toed webbed feet

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("pelecaniform seabird" is a kind of...):

sea bird; seabird; seafowl (a bird that frequents coastal waters and the open ocean: gulls; pelicans; gannets; cormorants; albatrosses; petrels; etc.)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pelecaniform seabird"):

pelican (large long-winged warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fish)

frigate bird; man-of-war bird (long-billed warm-water seabird with wide wingspan and forked tail)

gannet (large heavily built seabird with a long stout bill noted for its plunging dives for fish)

cormorant; Phalacrocorax carbo (large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish)

anhinga; darter; snakebird (fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill)

boatswain bird; tropic bird; tropicbird (mostly white web-footed tropical seabird often found far from land)

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