penguin
noun
any of several flightless, aquatic birds of the family Spheniscidae, of the Southern Hemisphere, having webbed feet and wings reduced to flippers.
penguins
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pluralof penguin.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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I'm incredibly excited to be managing the museum and counting penguins.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
Record-low Antarctic sea ice in 2022 coincided with the first-ever recorded large-scale breeding failure of emperor penguins, the report said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
In April, emperor penguins were upgraded from "near threatened" to "endangered" by the IUCN, the global authority on threatened wildlife.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
The new work represents a consensus built from whole-genome sequences of 64 penguins collected from 10 breeding colonies.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
He had been getting rather uneasy about his money; and after all, without him they could never have trained the penguins.
From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
