penguin

pen·guin  (pnggwn, pn-)

n.

1. Any of various stout flightless marine birds of the family Spheniscidae, of cool regions of the Southern Hemisphere, having flipperlike wings and webbed feet adapted for swimming and diving, and short scalelike feathers that are white in front and black on the back.

2. Obsolete The great auk.

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[Possibly from Welsh pen gwyn, White Head (name of an island in Newfoundland), great auk : pen, chief, head + gwynn, white; see weid- in Indo-European roots.]

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penguin

Noun

a flightless black-and-white sea bird with webbed feet and wings modified as flippers for swimming [origin unknown]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

penguin - short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet and wings modified as flippers family Spheniscidae, Spheniscidae - comprising all existing penguins sphenisciform seabird - flightless cold-water seabirds: penguins Adelie, Adelie penguin, Pygoscelis adeliae - medium-sized penguins occurring in large colonies on the Adelie Coast of Antarctica Aptenodytes patagonica, king penguin - large penguin on islands bordering the Antarctic Circle Aptenodytes forsteri, emperor penguin - the largest penguin; an Antarctic penguin jackass penguin, Spheniscus demersus - small penguin of South America and southern Africa with a braying call crested penguin, rock hopper - small penguin of the Falkland Islands and New Zealand

Translations

penguin [ˈpɛŋgwɪn] n → pingüino

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penguin [ˈpɛŋgwɪn] n → pingouin m

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penguin [ˈpɛŋgwɪn] n → Pinguin m

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penguin [ˈpɛŋgwɪn] n → pinguino

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penguin

n penguin [ˈpeŋgwin]

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