penguin
Noun
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Short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet and wings modified as flippers (synset 102058457)
is a type of: sphenisciform seabird - flightless cold-water seabirds: penguinssubtypes:
- adelie, adelie penguin, pygoscelis adeliae - medium-sized penguins occurring in large colonies on the Adelie Coast of Antarctica
- aptenodytes patagonica, king penguin - large penguin on islands bordering the Antarctic Circle
- aptenodytes forsteri, emperor penguin - the largest penguin; an Antarctic penguin
- jackass penguin, spheniscus demersus - small penguin of South America and southern Africa with a braying call
- crested penguin, rock hopper - small penguin of the Falkland Islands and New Zealand
belongs to: family spheniscidae, spheniscidae - comprising all existing penguins
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