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puffin
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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'' and ''Lunda'' that are black and white with a brightly-colored beak. (from 17th c.)
WordNet
n. any of two genera of northern seabirds having short necks and brightly colored compressed bills
Wikipedia
Puffins are any of three small species of alcids ( auks) in the bird genus Fratercula with a brightly coloured beak during the breeding season. These are pelagic seabirds that feed primarily by diving in the water. They breed in large colonies on coastal cliffs or offshore islands, nesting in crevices among rocks or in burrows in the soil. Two species, the tufted puffin and horned puffin, are found in the North Pacific Ocean, while the Atlantic puffin is found in the North Atlantic Ocean.
All puffin species have predominantly black or black and white plumage, a stocky build, and large beaks. They shed the colourful outer parts of their bills after the breeding season, leaving a smaller and duller beak. Their short wings are adapted for swimming with a flying technique under water. In the air, they beat their wings rapidly (up to 400 times per minute) in swift flight, often flying low over the ocean's surface.
The Puffin was a British lightvessel situated at Daunt Rock, 5 miles southwest of Roche's Point near the Cork harbour entrance, and was in the care of the Commissioners of Irish Lights.
The ship was built in 1887 by Schlesinger Davis & Co. in Wallsend, with yard number 144. Built of iron, it was 28.5 m long and 7,3 m wide, had a draught of 3,4 m and displaced 150 tons.
It sank on October 8, 1896, in a hurricane. The entire crew of eight was lost. In August 1897, the wreck of the Puffin was towed into Cobh harbour.
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
- Puffin unit of currency, from an unofficial coinage; see Coins of Lundy''
- Puffin crossing, a road safety feature
- Puffin, a fictional bird in The Swan Princess trilogy
- some of the butterflies in the genus Appias
- Puffin Island (disambiguation), multiple places
- Puffin web browser
- Puffin Rock, a children's TV series from Northern Ireland
- HMPAC Puffin man-powered aircraft
- NASA Puffin proposed single-seat proprotor.
- Parnall Puffin experimental amphibious fighter-reconnaissance biplane.
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.