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Puffins

The young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food.

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noun
  1. 1

    The young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food.

  2. 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.

  3. 3

    Any of various African and Asian pierid butterflies of the genus Appias. Some species of this genus are also known as albatrosses.

  4. 4

    A puffball.

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