'Puffin' definitions:
Definition of 'puffin'
From: WordNet
noun
Any of two genera of northern seabirds having short necks and brightly colored compressed bills
Definition of 'Puffin'
From: GCIDE
- Puffin \Puf"fin\ (p[u^]f"f[i^]n), n. [Akin to puff.]
- 1. (Zool.) An arctic sea bird Fratercula arctica) allied to the auks, and having a short, thick, swollen beak, whence the name; -- called also bottle nose, cockandy, coulterneb, marrot, mormon, pope, and {sea parrot}. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The name is also applied to other related species, as the horned puffin (Fratercula corniculata), the tufted puffin (Lunda cirrhata), and the razorbill. [1913 Webster]
- Manx puffin, the Manx shearwater. See under Manx. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Bot.) The puffball. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A sort of apple. [Obs.] --Rider's Dict. (1640). [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'puffin'
From: GCIDE
- Puffball \Puff"ball`\, n. (Bot.) A kind of ball-shaped fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum, and other species of the same genus) full of dustlike spores when ripe; -- called also bullfist, bullfice, puckfist, puff, and puffin. [1913 Webster]