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Penguin

noun

Short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet and wings modified as flippers.

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"Penguin" Quotes from Famous Books

... to their sacred table at the table d'hote, a snowy oblong in an airy alcove, where the Honourable Mrs. Dennant, Miss Dennant, and the Honourable Charlotte Penguin, a maiden aunt with insufficient lungs, sat twice a day in their own atmosphere. A momentary weakness came on Shelton the first time he saw them sitting there at lunch. What was it gave them their look of strange detachment? Mrs. Dennant was bending ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

Words linked to "Penguin" : Spheniscidae, sphenisciform seabird, family Spheniscidae, Adelie penguin, rock hopper, king penguin, jackass penguin, Adelie, Aptenodytes patagonica, Pygoscelis adeliae, Aptenodytes forsteri, Spheniscus demersus, emperor penguin