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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

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


The 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. [1913 Webster] Note: The name is also applied to other related species, as the horned puffin (Fratercula corniculata), the tufted puffin (Lunda cirrhata), and the razorbill. [1913 Webster] Manx puffin, the Manx shearwater. See under Manx. [1913 Webster] 2. (Bot.) The puffball. [1913 Webster] 3. A sort of apple. [Obs.] --Rider's Dict. (1640). [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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