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How to pronounce “puffin”
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Pronunciation guide for puffin
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of puffin with real speech in context.
- Available examples
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- Ilarion Merculieff
crested auklets, tufted puffin, horned puffin, just so
- Definition summary
- (now obsolete) The young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food. [14th–19th c.]
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How to pronounce puffin
Ilarion Merculieff
crested auklets, tufted puffin, horned puffin, just so
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “puffin”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (now obsolete) The young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food. [14th–19th c.]
- 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. [from 17th c.]
- (entomology) Any of various African and Asian pierid butterflies of the genus Appias. Some species of this genus are also known as albatrosses.
- (obsolete) A puffball.
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