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Definition of Crested penguin
1. Noun. Small penguin of the Falkland Islands and New Zealand.
Definition of Crested penguin
1. Noun. A group of penguins in the genus ''Eudyptes'', which all have in common a crest atop their heads. ¹
2. Noun. A small penguin from New Zealand and the Falkland islands ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crested Penguin
Literary usage of Crested penguin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Visitor, Or, Monthly Instructor by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1839)
"crested penguin. AMONG the oceanic birds which make the island of Tristan da
Cunha their resort, both as a resting place and a nursery, in which to incubate ..."
2. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"... compressed, furrowed obliquely, pointed, rounded above, upper mandible hooked,
lower mandible rounded or truncated at the point ; a crested penguin ..."
3. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1889)
"On a Species of crested penguin (Eudyptes sclateri) from the Auckland Islands.
... very distinct species of crested penguin have been hitherto confounded by ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1894)
"What I believe to be a new species of crested penguin was seen on the S. Orkneys by
Captain Sarsen. 7. On the Development of the Molar Teeth of the Elephant ..."
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