puffin

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food. obsolete
  2. The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) or (by extension) any of the other various small seabirds of the genera Fratercula and Lunda that are black and white with a brightly-coloured beak.
    — Naturally the Chickies and the Gooverooskies and the Epatkas—the Burgomaster Gulls and the Kittiwakes and the Puffins, who are always looking for a chance to be rude—took up the cry, and—so Limmershin told me—for nearly five minutes you could not have heard a gun fired on Walrus Islet.
  3. Any of various African and Asian pierid butterflies of the genus Appias. Some species of this genus are also known as albatrosses.
  4. A puffball. obsolete

词形变化

puffins plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Atlantic puffin common puffin crested puffin horned puffin puffin crossing puffinet puffinry puffling tufted puffin
相关词
fraterculine

词源

From Middle English poffin, poffoun, puffon, equivalent to puff + -ing, or perhaps ultimately from Middle Cornish (compare Breton poc'han (“puffin”)).
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