Puffin

['pʌfɪn]

Definition

(noun.) any of two genera of northern seabirds having short necks and brightly colored compressed bills.

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Definition

(n.) An arctic sea bird Fratercula arctica) allied to the auks, and having a short, thick, swollen beak, whence the name; -- called also bottle nose, cockandy, coulterneb, marrot, mormon, pope, and sea parrot.

(n.) The puffball.

(n.) A sort of apple.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Coulter-neb, Labrador auk (Alca arctica).

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Definition

n. a water-fowl having a short thick projecting beak like that of a parrot: a puff-ball.

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