Associations to the word «Petrel»

Wiktionary

PETREL, noun. Any of various species of black, grey, or white seabirds in the order Procellariiformes.

Dictionary definition

PETREL, noun. Relatively small long-winged tube-nosed bird that flies far from land.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne