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What is a penguin?

What is a penguin? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of several flightless sea birds, of order Sphenisciformes, found in the Southern Hemisphere; marked by their usual upright stance, walking on short legs, and (generally) their stark black and white plumage. [from 16th c.]
  2. (slang) A nun (because of the black and white habit).
  3. (juggling) A type of catch where the palm of the hand is facing towards the leg with the arm stretched downward, resembling the flipper of a penguin.
  4. A spiny bromeliad with egg-shaped fleshy fruit, Bromelia pinguin.
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This penguin owes its anonymity more to its location than to any lack of cuteness or scientific interest.
The birds spread across a rising slope of snow furrowed with ditches worn by thousands of penguin feet.
As it rocks from side to side, a walking penguin may look clumsy, but its movements are actually quite efficient.
Maxwell is an oddball penguin who doesn't like the cold and can't swim and has adventures in a safari park.
The mating game we were witnessing in the penguin colony was gentle and benign by comparison.
On their breeding grounds, they nest close to penguin colonies where they feed on the eggs and the young.

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