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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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... insects and reptiles—lizards, spiders, snakes,—with vast tortoises which seem of immemorial age, and are coated with seaweed and the slime of the ocean. If there are any birds, it is the strange and heavy penguin, the passing albatross, or the Mother Cary's chicken, which has been called the humming bird of ocean, and here finds a place for its young. By night these birds come for their repose; at earliest dawn they take wing and ...

— Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic • Thomas Wentworth Higginson

... best nest for their respective wants, and finally the construction of them, indicate instinct, reasoning power and mechanical skill of a high order. The range from the wonderful woven homes of the weaver bird and the Baltimore oriole down to the bare and nestless incubating spot of the penguin is so great that nothing less than a volume can furnish space in which to set it forth. But let us at least take a brief glance at a wide range ...

— The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals • William T. Hornaday

... hundred pounds. Also there was the cask of rum, which the men had moved into their own hut. But that was not all, for there were plenty of shellfish about if they could find means to cook them, while the rocks around were covered with hundreds of penguins, including specimens of the great "King penguin," which only required to be knocked on the head. There was, therefore, little fear of their perishing of starvation, as sometimes happens to ship wrecked people. Indeed, immediately after dinner, the two sailors went out and ...

— Mr. Meeson's Will • H. Rider Haggard

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