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ADELIE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Medium-sized penguins occurring in large colonies on the Adelie Coast of Antarctica
Synonyms:
Adelie; Adelie penguin; Pygoscelis adeliae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Adelie" is a kind of...):
penguin (short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet and wings modified as flippers)
Holonyms ("Adelie" is a member of...):
genus Pygoscelis; Pygoscelis (a genus of Spheniscidae)