Synonyms for penguin
ˈpɛŋ gwɪn, ˈpɛn-pen·guin

Princeton's WordNet

1. penguinnoun

   short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet and wings modified as flippers

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1. • Sphenisciform Seabird

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1. List of paraphrases for "penguin":

   auk, one-armed

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1. Joao Paulo Krajewski:

   It is a beautiful story because the penguin was in very bad shape and about to die when it was first found and the men gave him a second chance.

2. Joe Moore:

   It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry.

3. Louise Hartley:

   We have a deployment in Antarctica to monitor penguins, so we're getting images back daily to look at the penguin behavior and also look at environmental change in that area, we're also using it for anti-poaching purposes to improve security within protected areas. So an alert, an image, would be sent to an operations room and then rangers can then react accordingly to that alert.

4. Flinders University:

   Next to its colossal human-sized cousins, including the recently described monster penguin Crossvallia waiparensis, Kupoupou was comparatively small - no bigger than modern King Penguins which stand just under 1.1 meters tall.

5. Zelda Williams:

   Still, for a man so incredibly hairy and square, watching my dad on a bike was like watching a penguin spread his wings and take flight.