penguin

noun

Any of various stout, flightless aquatic birds of the family Spheniscidae, of the Southern Hemisphere, having flipperlike wings and webbed feet adapted for swimming and diving, short scalelike feathers, and white underparts with a dark back.

noun

The great auk.

noun

The wild pineapple, Bromelia Pinguin.

noun

The great auk, Alca impennis; the original sense.

noun

Any species of the family Spheniscidæ or Aptenodytidæ. (See Spheniscidæ for technical characters.)

noun

Any bird of the order Impennes, or Ptilopteri. They are covered with short, thick feathers, almost scalelike on the wings, which are without true quills. They are unable to fly, but use their wings to aid in diving, in which they are very expert. See King penguin, under jackass.

noun

The egg-shaped fleshy fruit of a West Indian plant (Bromelia Pinguin) of the Pineapple family; also, the plant itself, which has rigid, pointed, and spiny-toothed leaves, and is used for hedges.

noun

the great auk. See Auk.

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A nun (because of the black and white habit).

noun

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.