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

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puffin

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈpʌfɪn/

Noun

obsolete

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

Japanese Meaning

マン島シアウォーターの雛、特に食用として利用される（現代では使用されなくなった意味）

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On cold evenings they ate puffin with potatoes and turnips to stretch their meager provisions.

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寒い夕方には、彼らは食料をやりくりするためにジャガイモやカブと一緒にマンクスミズナギドリの幼鳥を食べていた。

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

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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.

Naturally the Chickies and the Gooverooskies and the Epatkas—the Burgomaster Gulls and the Kittiwakes and the Puffins, who are always looking for a chance to be rude—took up the cry, and—so Limmershin told me—for nearly five minutes you could not have heard a gun fired on Walrus Islet.

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(obsolete) A puffball.

puffins

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