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JACKASS PENGUIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jackass penguin mean? 

JACKASS PENGUIN (noun)
  The noun JACKASS PENGUIN has 1 sense:

1. small penguin of South America and southern Africa with a braying callplay

  Familiarity information: JACKASS PENGUIN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


JACKASS PENGUIN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Small penguin of South America and southern Africa with a braying call

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

jackass penguin; Spheniscus demersus

Hypernyms ("jackass penguin" is a kind of...):

penguin (short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet and wings modified as flippers)

Holonyms ("jackass penguin" is a member of...):

genus Spheniscus; Spheniscus (type genus of the Spheniscidae: jackass penguins)


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