The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fulmar \Ful"mar\ (f[u^]lm[aum]r), n. [Icel. f[=u]lm[=a]r. See foul, and Man a gull.] (Zo["o]l.) One of several species of sea birds, of the family Procellariid[ae], allied to the albatrosses and petrels. Among the well-known species are the arctic fulmar ( Fulmarus glacialis) (called also fulmar petrel, malduck, and mollemock), and the giant fulmar ( Ossifraga gigantea).
WordNet
n. heavy short-tailed oceanic bird of polar regions [syn: fulmar, Fulmarus glacialis]
Usage examples of "fulmar petrel".
The condor lays a couple of eggs and the ostrich a score, and yet in the same country the condor may be the more numerous of the two: the Fulmar petrel lays but one egg, yet it is believed to be the most numerous bird in the world, One fly deposits hundreds of eggs, and another, like the hippobosca, a single one.
Sometimes he took on the shape of a fulmar petrel, sometimes of a diving bird.
A hook-beaked fulmar petrel that stalked the strand line along the coast.