What does mother carey's chicken mean?

mother carey's chicken means "medium-sized storm petrel".

What is another word for mother carey's chicken?

Close synonyms include Mother Carey's hen, Oceanites oceanicus. 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 mother carey's chicken a common word?

mother carey's chicken 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.

mother carey's chicken — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
medium-sized storm petrel
SynonymsMother Carey's hen Oceanites oceanicus
Broaderstorm petrel
Part ofOceanites

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