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# penguin

noun (a penguin, penguins)

«penguin» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A black-and-white sea bird that cannot fly, swims very well using its wings as flippers, and lives mostly in the cold far south. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/penguin/#m1)

### In the lessons

In science, penguins are birds (they have feathers and lay eggs) that are adapted to cold: thick fat, tightly packed feathers and huddling together. They live in the Southern Hemisphere — Antarctica, and also South Africa, South America, Australia and New Zealand — not at the North Pole. Emperor penguin fathers keep the egg warm on their feet. Phrases: «emperor penguin», «a colony of penguins», «waddle like a penguin».

### Examples

- Penguins cannot fly, but they are great swimmers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/penguin/#x1)
- Emperor penguins huddle together to keep warm. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/penguin/#x2)
- The penguin waddled across the ice. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/penguin/#x3)
- Penguins live in the south, not at the North Pole with polar bears. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/penguin/#x4)
- Little penguins come ashore at night in Australia and New Zealand. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/penguin/#x5)
- A penguin's black back and white front help it hide in the sea. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/penguin/#x6)
- Penguins eat fish, squid and krill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/penguin/#x7)
- The father penguin keeps the egg warm on his feet. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/penguin/#x8)

### Note

Countable. Trap: penguins and polar bears never meet in the wild — penguins live in the south, polar bears in the north. Penguins are birds, not mammals or fish.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «penguin» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/penguin/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«penguin» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/penguin.html) on Mova free.