family Pelecanoididae

Thesaurus

Noun

1.family Pelecanoididae - diving petrelsPelecanoididaebird family - a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wingsorder Procellariiformes, Procellariiformes - petrels; albatrosses; shearwaters; diving petrelsdiving petrel - any of several small diving birds of southern hemisphere seas; somewhat resemble auks