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sea | penguin |

As a verb sea

is to saw.

As a noun penguin is

any of several flightless sea birds, of order sphenisciformes , found in the southern hemisphere; marked by their usual upright stance, walking on short legs, and (generally) their stark black and white plumage.

sea

English

Noun

  • A large body of salty water. (Major seas are known as oceans.)
  • (label) A large number or quantity; a vast amount.
    • A sea of faces stared back at the singer.
    With no power for the electric lights, the house was a sea of darkness.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2013, date=April 9, author=Andrei Lankov, title=Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff., work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=In the last two decades, North Korea has on various occasions conducted highly provocative missile and nuclear tests and promised to turn Seoul into a sea of fire. }}
  • A heavy wave.
  • (label) A large, dark plain of rock; a mare.

    • Synonyms

    * the ogin (UK'', ''nautical and navy )

    Derived terms

    {{der3, deep sea , freedom of the seas , high seas , open sea , seabased , sea breeze , seachange, sea change , sea cow , sea dragon , seafood , seagull , seahorse , sea cucumber , sea grape , sea hare , sea hog , sea level , sea liver , sea louse , sea monster , sea otter , seaplane , sea pork , sea room , sea sawdust , seaside , sea slug , sea squirt , seastar , sea urchin , sea wolf}}

    See also

    * ocean * The Seven Seas

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    penguin

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several flightless sea birds, of order Sphenisciformes , found in the Southern Hemisphere; marked by their usual upright stance, walking on short legs, and (generally) their stark black and white plumage.
  • * 1638 , (Thomas Herbert), Some Yeares Travels , I:
    • Here are also birds cal'd Pen-gwins'' (white-head in ''Welch ) like Pigmies walking upright, their finns or wings hanging very orderly downe like sleeves [...].
  • (slang) A nun (because of the black and white habit).
  • (juggling) A type of catch where the palm of the hand is facing towards the leg with the arm stretched downward, resembling the flipper of a penguin.
  • (botany) A spiny bromeliad with egg-shaped fleshy fruit, .

    • Derived terms

    * Adelie penguin * African penguin * Chatham Island penguin * chinstrap penguin * crested penguin * emperor penguin * erect-crested penguin * fairy penguin * Fiordland penguin * Galapagos penguin * gentoo penguin * Humboldt penguin * jackass penguin * king penguin * little penguin * macaroni penguin * Magellanic penguin * penguinery * Ridgen's penguin * rockhopper penguin * royal penguin * Snares penguin * white-flippered penguin * yellow-eyed penguin

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    * English refractory feminine rhymes