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Puffin - What does it mean?

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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

    Not English

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