fratercula arctica

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fratercula arctica - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Puffin \Puf"fin\ (p[u^]f"f[i^]n), n. [Akin to puff.]
     1. (Zool.) 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
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     Note: The name is also applied to other related species, as
           the horned puffin (Fratercula corniculata), the
           tufted puffin (Lunda cirrhata), and the razorbill.
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     Manx puffin, the Manx shearwater. See under Manx.
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     2. (Bot.) The puffball.
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     3. A sort of apple. [Obs.] --Rider's Dict. (1640).
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fratercula arctica - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Fratercula arctica
      n 1: common puffin of the northern Atlantic [syn: Atlantic puffin
           , Fratercula arctica]