SHEARWATER

 Dictionary entry overview: What does shearwater mean? 

• SHEARWATER (noun)
  The noun SHEARWATER has 1 sense:

1. long-winged oceanic bird that in flight skims close to the waves

  Familiarity information: SHEARWATER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHEARWATER (noun)

Meaning:

Long-winged oceanic bird that in flight skims close to the waves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("shearwater" is a kind of...):

petrel (relatively small long-winged tube-nosed bird that flies far from land)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shearwater"):

Manx shearwater; Puffinus puffinus (small black-and-white shearwater common in the northeastern Atlantic)

Holonyms ("shearwater" is a member of...):

genus Puffinus; Puffinus (shearwaters)