family pelecanoididae

English Thesaurus

1. diving petrels (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	bird family,
definition	:	a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	diving petrel,
definition	:	any of several small diving birds of southern hemisphere seas; somewhat resemble auks (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	order procellariiformes, procellariiformes,
definition	:	petrels; albatrosses; shearwaters; diving petrels (noun.animal)