puffinus puffinus

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   small black-and-white shearwater common in the northeastern Atlantic

   SynonymsManx shearwater

   Broadershearwater

Questions about puffinus puffinus

What does puffinus puffinus mean?

puffinus puffinus means "small black-and-white shearwater common in the northeastern Atlantic".

What is another word for puffinus puffinus?

Close synonyms include Manx shearwater. 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 puffinus puffinus a common word?

puffinus puffinus 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.