puffin
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puffin
- /ˈpʌfɪn/
Rhymes with -ʌfɪn
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From Middle English poffin, poffoun, puffon, equivalent to puff + -ing, or perhaps ultimately from Middle Cornish (compare Breton poc'han (“puffin”)).
noun puffins
- The young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food.
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The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) or (by extension) any of the other various small seabirds of the genera Fratercula and Lunda that are black and white with a brightly-coloured beak.
The place was just, in short, the only spot on that part of the coast where anybody could well live; there was a neat little creek, where a boat might lie as snug as a puffin in her nest, and out from this creek a ledge of sunken rocks ran into the sea.
Similar: pope, sea-parrot
- Any of various African and Asian pierid butterflies of the genus Appias. Some species of this genus are also known as albatrosses.
- A puffball.
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noun Fratercula arctica
| Español | frailecillo |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 角目鳥 tsunomedori |
| 中文 | 海鸚 /海鹦 hǎiyīng |
| Português | papagaio-do-mar |
| Français | macareux |
| Deutsch | Lund, Lundevogel, Papageitaucher, Papageientaucher (F. arctica), Hundlund (F. corniculata), Gelbschopflund (F. cirrhata) |
| Italiano | pulcinella di mare |
| Ελληνικά | φρατέρκουλα fratérkoula |
| Română | furtunar |
| Русский | ту́пик túpik, топо́рик topórik |
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