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penguin
  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.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “I saw a beautiful penguin waddling along the icy shores of Antarctica.”
      “I ended the book with a photograph of an emperor penguin chick from the Antarctic.”
      “When I die those atoms will carry on combining and recombining, and I may find myself part of a pencil, a penguin, a nurse or a nebula.”
penguinese
  1. (informal) The language supposedly used by penguins.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The next thing, a penguin will walk in here, tip his top hat, and abase himself while he mutters obsequiously in penguinese.”
penguinery
  1. (zoology) A breeding place, or rookery, of penguins.
penguineries
  1. plural of penguinery
penguins
  1. plural of penguin
  2. Examples:
    1. “The wandering albatross, king penguins, hundreds of pelagic birds, sea lions, and icebergs will be there, too.”
      “On land penguins also have a number of enemies which include leopards, caraculs, kelp gulls and mongooses.”
      “On a recent day, the squawking penguins were busily finding partners, preparing nests and waddling about the mating grounds.”
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