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puffins

puffins is the plural of puffin.

Meaning of puffin

Noun

puffin (plural puffins)

  1. (obsolete) The young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food.
  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.
    • The place was just, in short, the only spot on that part of the coast where anybody could well live; there was a neat little creek, where a boat might lie as snug as a puffin in her nest, and out from this creek a ledge of sunken rocks ran into the sea.1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 527
    Synonyms:
    pope, sea-parrot
  3. Any of various African and Asian pierid butterflies of the genus Appias. Some species of this genus are also known as albatrosses.
  4. (obsolete) A puffball.

Phrases with puffins

Questions about puffins

What is puffins the plural of?
Puffins is the plural of puffin.

Words near puffins in the dictionary

  1. puffing up
  2. puffingly
  3. puffings
  4. puffinries
  5. puffinry
  6. puffins
  7. puffleg
  8. pufflegs
  9. puffless
  10. pufflet
  11. pufflets

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