giant petrel

1. 1.

   large brownish petrel chiefly of Antarctic seas

   Synonymsgiant fulmarMacronectes giganteus

   Broaderpetrel

   Part ofMacronectes

Questions about giant petrel

What does giant petrel mean?

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

What is another word for giant petrel?

Close synonyms include giant fulmar, 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 petrel a common word?

giant petrel 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.