The Collaborative International Dictionary
Puffin \Puf"fin\ (p[u^]f"f[i^]n), n. [Akin to puff.]
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(Zo["o]l.) An arctic sea bird Fratercula arctica) allied to the auks, and having a short, thick, swollen beak, whence the name; -- called also bottle nose, cockandy, coulterneb, marrot, mormon, pope, and sea parrot.
Note: The name is also applied to other related species, as the horned puffin ( Fratercula corniculata), the tufted puffin ( Lunda cirrhata), and the razorbill.
Manx puffin, the Manx shearwater. See under Manx.
(Bot.) The puffball.
A sort of apple. [Obs.]
--Rider's Dict. (1640).
Usage examples of "bottle nose".
His bottle nose was blunt, and, unlike the other so-called Stenos aboard, his coloring was not mottled but deeply countershaded.
Arbat broke from the pool bottom, came to nuzzle her bottle nose against Irina's side.
With a single sweep he drew the cloak aside, to reveal a squat gray-faced troll with a bottle nose, pendulous cheeks and eyes like small balls of black glass.