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ADELIE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Adelie mean?
• ADELIE (noun)
The noun ADELIE has 1 sense:
1. medium-sized penguins occurring in large colonies on the Adelie Coast of Antarctica
Familiarity information: ADELIE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Medium-sized penguins occurring in large colonies on the Adelie Coast of Antarctica
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Adelie; Adelie penguin; Pygoscelis adeliae
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)
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