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Black-and-white seabird
Answer for the clue "Black-and-white seabird ", 6 letters:
puffin
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Word definitions for puffin in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
North Atlantic seabird, mid-14c., perhaps connected with puff on notion of appearance, or from some Celtic word (earliest association is with Cornwall and Scilly), and altered by influence of puff .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Puffins are stocky black-and-white pelagic seabirds in the genus Fratercula . Puffin or Puffins may also refer to General Puffin Books , an imprint of Penguin Books specialising in children's literature Puffin Lightvessel Puffin, a type of filled Puff pastry ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of two genera of northern seabirds having short necks and brightly colored compressed bills
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Puffball \Puff"ball`\, n. (Bot.) A kind of ball-shaped fungus ( Lycoperdon giganteum , and other species of the same genus) full of dustlike spores when ripe; -- called also bullfist , bullfice , puckfist , puff , and puffin .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context now obsolete English) The young of the Manx shearwater (''Puffinus puffinus''), especially eaten as food. (14th–19th c.) 2 The Atlantic puffin (''Fratercula arctica''). 3 Any of the other various small seabirds of the genera ''Fratercula'' ...
Usage examples of puffin.
They had missed the spectacular breeding colonies of the spring when the cliffs were white with nesting guillemots and razorbills and the puffin burrows honeycombed the turf, but there were other visitors now: the migrant goldcrests and fieldfares and buntings -and the seals, hundreds of them, returning to have their pups.
They had missed the spectacular breeding colonies of the spring when the cliffs were white with nesting guillemots and razorbills and the puffin burrows honeycombed the turf, but there were other visitors now: the migrant goldcrests and fieldfares and buntings -and the seals, hundreds of them, returning to have their pups.
He went into a small restaurant, where he ate smoked puffin and cloudberries and arctic char and boiled potatoes, and he drank Coca-Cola, which tasted sweeter, more sugary than he remembered it tasting back in the States.
Ceaseless screeching and cawing and hissing testified to the competition for prime sites among dragonets and puffins, gulls and terns.
Ice floes grinding together drowned out the happy clatter of the puffins.
I recognized kittiwakes and puffins among the seabirds on the grey gneiss rocks along the shore, and marveled that I knew the names of birds and stone.
The scheme had the support of several notable airmen, whose faces, adorned with flying helmets, stared and grinned from every page of the press in conjunction with their considered opinions that Puffins were doing a valuable work in helping to establish British Supremacy in the Air.
Armstrong pointed out to them that the sole result of this would be to confuse the public mind between Whifflets and Puffins, which were already quite sufficiently similar in quality and appearance to confuse anybody.
If Whifflets use large heads of film-stars, Puffins want to come out with still larger heads of still more important stars.
If Gasperettes give away timepieces, Puffins follow on with grandfather clocks and Whifflets with chronometers.
There were a Papuan lory, a sulphur-crested cockatoo, the chiffchaff and kookaburra bird, laughing jackass and motmot, chachalaca, drongo and poor old puffin.
Guillemots, gannets, puffins, razor-bills, little auks, kittiwakes.
For some time he contemplated the birds: a few razorbills and guillemots as well as the puffins - remarkably few gulls of any kind - the oyster-catchers' parents (he was confident of the chicks' well-being, having seen the neat shells from which they had hatched) - some rock-doves, and a small band of choughs.