PYGOSCELIS ADELIAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pygoscelis adeliae mean? 

• PYGOSCELIS ADELIAE (noun)
  The noun PYGOSCELIS ADELIAE has 1 sense:

1. medium-sized penguins occurring in large colonies on the Adelie Coast of Antarctica

  Familiarity information: PYGOSCELIS ADELIAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PYGOSCELIS ADELIAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Medium-sized penguins occurring in large colonies on the Adelie Coast of Antarctica

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Adelie; Adelie penguin; Pygoscelis adeliae

Hypernyms ("Pygoscelis adeliae" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("Pygoscelis adeliae" is a member of...):

genus Pygoscelis; Pygoscelis (a genus of Spheniscidae)