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Lunda vs Puffin - What's the difference?

lunda | puffin |

As nouns the difference between lunda and puffin

is that lunda is the language of the BaLunda people of central Africa while puffin is the young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food.

lunda

English

Noun

(-)
  • the language of the BaLunda people of central Africa

    • See also

    * (lun)

    External links

    * * (Lunda)

    Anagrams

    * *

    puffin

    English

    (wikipedia puffin)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica ).
  • Any of the other various small seabirds of the genera Fratercula'' and ''Lunda that are black and white with a brightly-colored beak.
  • * 1894 , (Rudyard Kipling), '', ''The White Seal :
    • Naturally the Chickies and the Gooverooskies and the Epatkas–the Burgomaster Gulls and the Kittiwakes and the Puffins , who are always looking for a chance to be rude, took up the cry, and–so Limmershin told me–for nearly five minutes you could not have heard a gun fired on Walrus Islet.

    Synonyms

    * sea-parrot * (qualifier) pope

    Derived terms

    * Atlantic puffin * horned puffin * puffinet * puffinry * puffling * tufted puffin

    Related terms

    *fraterculine