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Noun: storm petrel
  1. Any of various small petrels having dark plumage with paler underparts
    "Sailors once believed that storm petrels were harbingers of bad weather"

Derived forms: storm petrels

Type of: petrel

Part of: family Hydrobatidae, Hydrobatidae

Encyclopedia: Storm petrel