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Noun: penguin  pen-gwin
  1. Short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet and wings modified as flippers

Derived forms: penguins

Type of: sphenisciform seabird

Part of: family Spheniscidae, Spheniscidae

Encyclopedia: Penguin, Tasmania

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