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Rarepuffin
The correct spelling is puffin.
How to pronounce puffin
noun
IPA: /ˈpʌfɪn/
Say it like: Puf-fin
The correct spelling is puffin. The young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food.
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Definition
noun
- 1.The young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food.
- 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.Any of various African and Asian pierid butterflies of the genus Appias. Some species of this genus are also known as albatrosses.
- 4.A puffball.
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