puffin

Any of several seabirds of the genus Fratercula of northern regions, characteristically having black-and-white plumage and a vertically flattened, triangular bill that is brightly colored during breeding season.

A name wrongly applied to the Manx shearwater, Puffinus anglorum.

A sea-parrot, colter-neb, or bottle-nosed auk; a bird of the family Alcidæ and genus Fratercula or Lunda. See these words.

A kind of fungus; a fuzzball; a puffball.

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An arctic sea bird Fratercula arctica) allied to the auks, and having a short, thick, swollen beak, whence the name; — called also bottle nose, cockandy, coulterneb, marrot, mormon, pope, and sea parrot.

the Manx shearwater. See under Manx.

The puffball.

A sort of apple.

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