giant fulmar

1. 1.

   large brownish petrel chiefly of Antarctic seas

   Synonymsgiant petrelMacronectes giganteus

   Broaderpetrel

   Part ofMacronectes

Questions about giant fulmar

What does giant fulmar mean?

giant fulmar means "large brownish petrel chiefly of Antarctic seas".

What is another word for giant fulmar?

Close synonyms include giant petrel, Macronectes giganteus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is giant fulmar a common word?

giant fulmar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.