puffin
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Danh từ
nounPlural noun:
puffins
- 1.
(obsolete)(now obsolete) The young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food.
- 2.
The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) or (by extension) any of the other various small seabirds of the genera Fratercula and Lunda that are black and white with a brightly-coloured beak.
Đồng nghĩa: pope, sea-parrot
- 3.
(entomology) Any of various African and Asian pierid butterflies of the genus Appias. Some species of this genus are also known as albatrosses.
- 4.
(obsolete)A puffball.
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Đồng nghĩa
popesea-parrot
Cùng gốc / liên quan
fraterculine
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Nguồn gốc từ
thumb|A puffin From Middle English poffin, poffoun, puffon, equivalent to puff + --ing, or perhaps ultimately from - (compare poc'han puffin).