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from The Century Dictionary.

  • The penguins as an order of birds: conterminous with Impennes, Squamipennes, Sphenisci, and Spheniscomorphæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural (Zoöl.) An order of birds including only the penguins.

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