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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A group of birds, the penguins. Also called Spheniscidæ and Spheniscomorphæ. Illiger. See Aptenodytidæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural (Zoöl.) An order of birds, including only the penguins, in which the wings are without quills, and not suited for flight.

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