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单词 penguin
释义 penguin
 /peng"gwin, pen"-/, n. Ornith.
  1. any of several flightless, aquatic birds of the family Spheniscidae, of the Southern Hemisphere, having webbed feet and wings reduced to flippers.
  2.  Obs.   See great auk.
 [1570-80; orig. uncert.; perh. < Welsh pen gwyn lit., white head (referring to the great auk in its winter plumage); later misapplied to the Spheniscidae]
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