Adélie penguin
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Adélie penguin
First recorded in 1905–10
Example Sentences
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Mr Stracke was shocked to find that the penguin was an Adélie penguin - a species that lives exclusively on the Antarctic peninsula.
From BBC • Nov. 12, 2021
The discovery is only the third in history that an Adélie penguin has been found on New Zealand's coasts, following two incidents in 1993 and 1962.
From BBC • Nov. 12, 2021
Her partner, Peter Wilson, who for a time spent every Christmas in Antarctica running the Adélie penguin program, had shared so many stories of penguins and inescapable sunlight that Dr. Beggs wanted to go, too.
From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2021
Facebook’s version is clearly an Adélie penguin, says Michelle LaRue, a research ecologist at the University of Minnesota, while Google seems to have gone with an emperor penguin.
From National Geographic • Dec. 28, 2017
The Adélie penguin on land or ice is almost wholly ludicrous.
From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Scott, Robert Falcon
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