Meaning | Comprising all existing penguins. |
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Synonym | family Spheniscidae |
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Member of | Sphenisciformes, order Sphenisciformes | penguins |
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Members | Aptenodytes, genus Aptenodytes | large penguins |
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Eudyptes, genus Eudyptes | rock hoppers |
Pygoscelis, genus Pygoscelis | A genus of Spheniscidae |
Spheniscus, genus Spheniscus | type genus of the Spheniscidae |
penguin | short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet and wings modified as flippers |
Broader | bird family | A family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings |
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Spanish | esfeníscidos |
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Catalan | esfeníscids, Spheniscidae |
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