pen|guin

pen|guin
pen|guin «PEHN gwihn, PEHNG», noun.
1. a sea bird with flippers for diving and swimming in place of wings for flying. Penguins live chiefly in Antarctica and other cold areas of the Southern Hemisphere. They are short-legged with webbed feet, and have black and white plumage. There are several kinds, making up an order of birds. »

Lady penguins lay only one egg a year and guard it well (New York Times).

2. an apparatus for training airplane pilots, having stubby wings, a tail, motor, and controls, but capable of being maneuvered only on the ground.
3. any one of a class of racing dinghies with one mast set far forward.
4. Slang. an aviator who does not fly; administrative officer in the air force.
5. Obsolete. the great auk.
╂[supposedly < Welsh pen head + gwyn white]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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