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English
Image:Puffin2.jpg|thumb|A puffin
Pronunciation
IPA|/�p�fɪn/
rhymes|�fɪn
Noun
en-noun
- Any of various small seabirds of the genera Fratercula and Lunda that are black and white with a brightly coloured beak.
#* 1894, w:Rudyard Kipling|Rudyard Kipling, s:The Jungle Book|The Jungle Book, The White Seal
#*: Naturally the Chickies and the Gooverooskies and the Epatkas�the Burgomaster Gulls and the Kittiwakes and the Puffins, who are always looking for a chance to be rude, took up the cry, and�so Limmershin told me�for nearly five minutes you could not have heard a gun fired on Walrus Islet.
Synonyms
sea-parrot
Translations
trans-top|seabird with a coloured beak
Dutch: t|nl|papegaaiduiker|m, t+|nl|alk|m
Icelandic: t+|is|lundi|m
Finnish: t-|fi|lunni
French: t|fr|macareux|m
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Italian: t-|it|pulcinella di mare|f
Russian: t|ru|��пик|m|scCyrl (túpik), t|ru|�опо�ик|m|scCyrl (topórik)
Spanish: t|es|frailecillo|m
Welsh: t|cy|pâl|xs=Welsh
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