Atlantic puffin


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any of several alcidine sea birds of the genera fratercula and lunda, having a short neck and a large, compressed, grooved bill, as f. arctica (atlantic puffin) of the north atlantic.
noun
any of various northern diving birds of the family alcidae (auks, etc), esp fratercula arctica (common or atlantic puffin), having a black-and-white plumage and a brightly coloured vertically flattened bill: order charadriiformes
n.

north atlantic seabird, mid-14c., perhaps connected with puff on notion of appearance, or from some celtic word (earliest -ssociation is with cornwall and scilly), and altered by influence of puff.

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