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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A penguin or spheniscomorph; especially, a jackass-penguin of the restricted genus Spheniscus. See cut under
Spheniscus .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any species of penguin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology, rare A
penguin of anyspecies .
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