pelecaniform seabird

Thesaurus

Noun

1.pelecaniform seabird - large fish-eating seabird with four-toed webbed feetsea bird, seabird, seafowl - a bird that frequents coastal waters and the open ocean: gulls; pelicans; gannets; cormorants; albatrosses; petrels; etc.pelican - large long-winged warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fishfrigate bird, man-of-war bird - long-billed warm-water seabird with wide wingspan and forked tailgannet - large heavily built seabird with a long stout bill noted for its plunging dives for fishcormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo - large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fishanhinga, darter, snakebird - fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed billboatswain bird, tropic bird, tropicbird - mostly white web-footed tropical seabird often found far from land