Puffin vs. Penguin
Difference Between Puffin and Penguin
Puffinnoun
The young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food.
Penguinnoun
Any of several flightless sea birds, of order Sphenisciformes, found in the Southern Hemisphere; marked by their usual upright stance, walking on short legs, and (generally) their stark black and white plumage.
Puffinnoun
The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) or, by extension, any of the other various small seabirds of the genera Fratercula and Lunda that are black and white with a brightly-colored beak.
Penguinnoun
(slang) A nun (association through appearance, because of the black and white habit).
Puffinnoun
any of two genera of northern seabirds having short necks and brightly colored compressed bills
Penguinnoun
(juggling) A type of catch where the palm of the hand is facing towards the leg with the arm stretched downward, resembling the flipper of a penguin.
Penguinnoun
A spiny bromeliad with egg-shaped fleshy fruit, Bromelia pinguin.
Penguinnoun
short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet and wings modified as flippers
