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puffin

DEFINITIONS OF: puffin

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n any of two genera of northern seabirds having short necks and brightly colored compressed bills

Types:
Atlantic puffin, Fratercula arctica
common puffin of the northern Atlantic
Fratercula corniculata, horned puffin
northern Pacific puffin
Lunda cirrhata, tufted puffin
northern Pacific puffin having a large yellow plume over each eye
Type of:
sea bird, seabird, seafowl
a bird that frequents coastal waters and the open ocean: gulls; pelicans; gannets; cormorants; albatrosses; petrels; etc.
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