Puffin

Noun

 * 1)  The Manx shearwater, Puffinus puffinus.
 * 2) Any of various small seabirds of the genera Fratercula and Lunda that are black and white with a brightly coloured beak.
 * 3) * 1894, Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, 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

Derived terms

 * puffinet
 * puffinry

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, Lundevogel (genera Fratercula),  Papageitaucher, Papageientaucher (F. arctica),  Hundlund (F. corniculata), Gelbschopflund (F. cirrhata), Nashornalk (Cerorhinca monocerata)
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Manx: pibbin


 * Navajo:
 * Polish: maskonur
 * Portuguese: papagaio-do-mar
 * Russian: (túpik), топорик (topórik)
 * Scots: (tammie) norrie
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh: pâl

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