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Definition of Adelie
1. Noun. Medium-sized penguins occurring in large colonies on the Adelie Coast of Antarctica.
Generic synonyms: Penguin
Group relationships: Genus Pygoscelis, Pygoscelis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adelie
Literary usage of Adelie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic by Ernest Henry Shackleton, Hugh Robert Mill, Tannatt William Edgeworth David (1909)
"THE Adelie The Adelie is always comical. He pops out of the water with ...
In the water the Adelie penguins move rapidly and circle in the same way as a ..."
2. The American Library Annual: Including Index to Dates of Current Events (1915)
"exploring in Adelie Land, Adelaide, Australia. F 26 Mawson's wireless operator,
crazed by antarctic solitude, found after б days in bush and sent to asylum. ..."
3. A directory for the navigation of the Pacific ocean by Alexander George Findlay (1851)
"... which the setting in of the winter so much earlier than we expected had
prevented our accomplishing so satisfactorily as we wished." • Adelie ..."
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