Puffin

Definitions

1. The young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food.
   obsolete
2. 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-coloured beak.
3. Any of various African and Asian pierid butterflies of the genus Appias. Some species of this genus are also known as albatrosses.
4. A puffball.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“Naturally the Chickies and the Gooverooskies and the Epatkas—the Burgomaster Gulls and the Kittiwakes and the Puffins, who are always looking for a chance to be rude—took up the cry⟳, and—so Limmershin told me—for nearly five minutes you could not have⟳ heard a gun fired on Walrus Islet.”

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