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Penguin

noun

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

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... in the Origin, Ed. i. p. 171, vi. p. 207, are the rarity of transitional varieties, the origin of the tail of the giraffe; the otter-like polecat (Mustela vison); the flying habit of the bat; the penguin and the logger-headed duck; flying fish; the whale-like habit of the bear; the woodpecker; diving petrels; the eye; the swimming bladder; Cirripedes; neuter insects; ...

— The Foundations of the Origin of Species - Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 • Charles Darwin

... faculties. It is as certain as death that a bodily member which is left unused shrinks and becomes aborted. If one arm is hung for a long time in a sling, the muscles gradually fade until the skin clings closely round the bone. The wing of the huge penguin still exists, but it is no bigger than that of a wren, and it is hidden away under the skin. The instances might be multiplied a thousandfold. In the same way then any mental faculty becomes atrophied if it is unused. Bad company is that which produces this atrophy ...

— The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions - Joints In Our Social Armour • James Runciman

Words linked to "Penguin" : Pygoscelis adeliae, crested penguin, Adelie penguin, Adelie, jackass penguin, Aptenodytes patagonica, emperor penguin, Spheniscidae, family Spheniscidae, rock hopper, sphenisciform seabird, Spheniscus demersus, Aptenodytes forsteri