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Shearwaters (Topical Term)

Number of records used in: 1
Preferred form: Shearwaters
Used for/see from:
  • Mutton birds
  • Muttonbirds
  • Puffininae
See also:

Random House Web. unabr. dict., c1997 (mutton bird: any of several long-winged seabirds, often used as food, esp. Puffinus tenuirostris (short-tailed shearwater) of Australia and Puffinus griseus (sooty shearwater). Also, mutton-bird)

Web. 3 (muttonbird: any of several Australasian sea birds often used (as by the Maori) for their meat, oil, and feathers: as a (1) a short-tailed shearwater (Puffinus tenuirostris) of Australia and N.Z. (2) a sooty shearwater (Puffinus griseus) of N.Z. b: any of several petrels (as Pterodroma macroptera, P. lessoni, and P. neglecta))

Encarta world Eng. dict., via WWW, July 23, 2003 (mutton bird: type of sea bird: an Australasian sea bird of the shearwater family. Mutton birds are traditionally hunted by the Maori for food)

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