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Penguin vs Tardigrade - What's the difference?

penguin | tardigrade |

As nouns the difference between penguin and tardigrade

is that 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 while tardigrade is (zoology) a member of the animal phylum tardigrada.

As an adjective tardigrade is

sluggish; moving slowly.

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

    References

    External links

    * English refractory feminine rhymes

    tardigrade

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Sluggish; moving slowly.
  • * {{quote-book, passage=Each tendril ending in a perfect claw, / Obeys the whole routine of Nature's law; / Transforms each sinus to a sylvan shade, / Though p'rhaps its force is rather tardigrade .
    • , title=Poems , author=Joses Badcock , volume=1 , year=1850 , page=67 , pageurl=http://books.google.ca/books?id=Q2d38wvcxq8C&pg=PA67&lpg=PA67&dq=%22rather+tardigrade%22&source=bl&ots=x4Gez6VUbE&sig=t3gojjAeUgUhg5mP7MnPnTiTs-Y&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3RT_T5DrPIWlrQHokLGLCQ&redir_esc=y
  • v=onepage&q=%22rather%20tardigrade%22&f=false
    • , chapter=Botany; or, Phytology}}
  • * {{quote-book, passage=He ran on into the piazza, but he quickly heard the tramp of feet behind him, for the other two prisoners had been released, and the soldiers were struggling and fighting their way after them, in such tardigrade fashion as their hoof-shaped shoes would allow—impeded, but not very resolutely attacked, by the people.
    • , year=1863 , title=(Romola) , author=(George Eliot)}}
  • * {{quote-book, passage=In sorrow, its voice is tardigrade but loud, dragging time at a snail's pace before our eyes.
    • , title=Century One , page=92 , pageurl=http://books.google.ca/books?id=8ntoWUQDgyQC&pg=PA92&lpg=PA92&dq=%22is+tardigrade%22&source=bl&ots=eUM3LA-Y__&sig=Lie_V6QtujBCtIFmExvkC3vCwzE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TRf_T5n5KMimrQG8uJyLCQ&ved=0CD4Q6AEwAg
  • v=onepage&q=%22is%20tardigrade%22&f=false
    • , chapter=The Metronome , author=Richard S. Conde , year=2001 , isbn=0-595-16296-7}}
    Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    (wikipedia tardigrade) From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (zoology) A member of the animal phylum Tardigrada.
    • Synonyms
    * water bear