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SEAFOWL

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A bird that frequents coastal waters and the open ocean: gulls; pelicans; gannets; cormorants; albatrosses; petrels; etc.

Synonyms:

sea bird; seabird; seafowl

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("seafowl" is a kind of...):

aquatic bird (wading and swimming and diving birds of either fresh or salt water)

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

coastal diving bird (gull family; skimmer family; jaeger family; auk family)

auk (black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas)

puffin (any of two genera of northern seabirds having short necks and brightly colored compressed bills)

gaviiform seabird (seabirds of the order Gaviiformes)

podicipitiform seabird (aquatic birds related to the loons)

pelecaniform seabird (large fish-eating seabird with four-toed webbed feet)

sphenisciform seabird (flightless cold-water seabirds: penguins)

oceanic bird; pelagic bird (bird of the open seas)

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