giant petrel

Questions about giant petrel

What is another word for giant petrel?

It depends which giant petrel you mean. In the sense “large brownish petrel chiefly of Antarctic seas”, the synonyms are giant fulmar, Macronectes giganteus. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of giant petrel?

WordNet records no antonym for giant petrel. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for giant petrel come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of giant petrel

• Full entry for giant petrelAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for giant petrelWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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