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Nov 30, 2009
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puf•fin



Pronunciation: (puf'in), [key]
n.
any of several alcidine sea birds of the genera Fratercula and Lunda, having a short neck and a large, compressed, grooved bill, as F. arctica (Atlantic puffin), of the North Atlantic.

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