1
- a small petrel of southern seas, having a wide bill fringed with comb-like plates for feeding on planktonic crustaceans锯鹱。
1.1
- Genus Pachyptila, family Procellariidae: six species.锯鹱属, 鹱科：6种。
词源
mid 19th cent.: modern Latin (former genus name)， from Greek priōn 'a saw' （referring to its saw-like bill）.
词源
1980s: by rearrangement of elements from pro(teinaceous) in(fectious particle).