penguinnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈpeŋ.ɡwɪn/us/ˈpeŋ.ɡwɪn/B1 a black and white bird that cannot fly but uses its small wings to help it swim
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Birds found by or on the sea
- albatross
- cormorant
- curlew
- fulmar
- gannet
- guillemot
- gull
- petrel
- plover
- puffin
- seagull
- shag
- skua
- tern
Examples from literature
- And if you take a boat ride, you can see penguins up close.
- But luckily for penguins, they can swim very well to get away from danger.
- But penguins also use their flippers to fight.
- In one hour, penguins can only walk about three kilometers across the ice of Antarctica.
- Like ducks, penguins have wide feet.
- Like other animals, penguins use their powerful flippers to swim fast towards food and away from danger.
- Like penguins, ostriches cannot fly, but they can walk and run fast.
- Penguins are birds, but they can’t fly!
- Penguins swim with their flippers, and eagles fly with their wings.
- Some penguins can swim at a speed of 24 kilometers an hour!
- This is not easy because penguins sometimes live in groups of thousands.
- When penguins cannot move to safety in time, they hit other animals with their hard flippers to make them go away.
- When some kinds of male penguins want to find a mate, for example, they look for just the right female.