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pen·guin

(pĕng′gwĭn, pĕn′-)

1. Any of various stout, flightless aquatic birds of the family Spheniscidae, of the Southern Hemisphere, having flipperlike wings and webbed feet adapted for swimming and diving, short scalelike feathers, and white underparts with a dark back.

2. Obsolete The great auk.

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

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penguin

(ˈpɛŋɡwɪn)

1. (Animals) any flightless marine bird, such as Aptenodytes patagonica (king penguin) and Pygoscelis adeliae (Adélie penguin), of the order Sphenisciformes of cool southern, esp Antarctic, regions: they have wings modified as flippers, webbed feet, and feathers lacking barbs. See also emperor penguin, king penguin

2. (Animals) an obsolete name for great auk

[C16: perhaps from Welsh pen gwyn, from pen head + gwyn white]

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pen•guin

(ˈpɛŋ gwɪn, ˈpɛn-)

n.

1. any of various flightless aquatic birds of the order Sphenisciformes, of the Southern Hemisphere, having webbed feet and wings reduced to flippers.

2. Obs. great auk.

[1570–80; perhaps < Welsh pen gwyn literally, white head (referring to the great auk in winter plumage); misapplied to the Sphenisciformes]

pen·guin

(pĕng′gwĭn)

Any of various flightless sea birds having white feathers in front and black feathers in back and living mostly in or near Antarctica. With their webbed feet, narrow flipper-like wings, and scale-like feathers, penguins are adapted for swimming underwater, where they feed on fish and other sea animals. On land, they have an upright posture.

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Noun

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

بَطْرِيقٌطائِر البَطريق

пингвин

tučňák

pingvin

pingviini

pingvin

mörgæs

pinguino

ペンギン

펭귄

pingvinas

pingvīns

pinguinpinguini

tučniak

pingvin

นกเพนกวิน

penguen

chim cánh cụt

企鹅

penguin

[ˈpeŋgwɪn] N → pingüino m

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penguin

[ˈpɛŋgwɪn] n → pingouin m

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penguin

n → Pinguin m; penguin suit (hum) → Frack m, → Schwalbenschwanz m (hum)

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penguin

[ˈpɛŋgwɪn] n → pinguino

penguin

(ˈpeŋgwin) noun

a large sea-bird which is found in Antarctic regions and which cannot fly.

penguin

→ بَطْرِيقٌ tučňák pingvin Pinguin πιγκουίνος pingüino pingviini pingouin pingvin pinguino ペンギン 펭귄 pinguïn pingvin pingwin pinguim пингвин pingvin นกเพนกวิน penguen chim cánh cụt 企鹅

References in classic literature ?

- Ship Fare.- A Labrador Veteran- Literary Clerks.- Curious Travellers.- Robinson Crusoe's Island.- Quarter-Deck Quarrels.- Falkland Islands.- A Wild-Goose Chase.- Port Egmont.- Epitaph Hunting.- Old Mortality- Penguin Shooting.- Sportsmen Left in the Lurch.-A Hard Pull.- Further Altercations.- Arrival at Owyhee.

In the meantime the penguin hunters had joined the engravers of tombstones, but not before the ship was already out at sea.

They pitched a tent on shore, had a boat at their command, and passed their time merrily in rambling about the island, and coasting along the shores, shooting sealions, seals, foxes, geese, ducks, and penguins. None were keener in pursuit of this kind of game than M'Dougal and David Stuart; the latter was reminded of aquatic sports on the coast of Labrador, and his hunting exploits in the Northwest.

M'Dougal and David Stuart, had strolled away to the south of the island in pursuit of penguins. It would never do to put off without them, as there was but one boat to convey the whole.

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(3) To this list I would also add the following: "Hesiod and Theognis", translated by Dorothea Wender (Penguin Classics, London, 1973).

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If about a dozen genera of birds had become extinct or were unknown, who would have ventured to have surmised that birds might have existed which used their wings solely as flappers, like the logger-headed duck(Micropterus of Eyton); as fins in the water and front legs on the land, like the penguin; as sails, like the ostrich; and functionally for no purpose, like the Apteryx.

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One dark night we were surrounded by numerous seals and penguins, which made such strange noises, that the officer on watch reported he could hear the cattle bellowing on shore.

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There were penguins, so agile in the water, heavy and awkward as they are on the ground; they were uttering harsh cries, a large assembly, sober in gesture, but extravagant in clamour.

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Here was also an infinite number of fowls of many kinds, some which I had seen, and some which I had not seen before, and many of them very good meat, but such as I knew not the names of, except those called penguins.

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They pointed out the fish and dead birds lying about among the rocks as proving the nature of the food of these creatures, and I heard them congratulating each other on having cleared up the point why the bones of this flying dragon are found in such great numbers in certain well-defined areas, as in the Cambridge Green-sand, since it was now seen that, like penguins, they lived in gregarious fashion.

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Monster penguin discovered in New Zealand AKIPRESS.COM - The remains of a "monster" penguin have been found in New Zealand, according to researchers, Sky News reports.

Monster penguin discovered in New Zealand

[USA], Aug 14 (ANI): Researchers have found a new species of giant penguin, which is about 1.6 metres tall, from fossils in Waipara, North Canterbury.