KING PENGUIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does king penguin mean? 

• KING PENGUIN (noun)
  The noun KING PENGUIN has 1 sense:

1. large penguin on islands bordering the Antarctic Circle

  Familiarity information: KING PENGUIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KING PENGUIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large penguin on islands bordering the Antarctic Circle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Aptenodytes patagonica; king penguin

Hypernyms ("king penguin" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("king penguin" is a member of...):

Aptenodytes; genus Aptenodytes (large penguins)

 Context examples 

"This resulted in population decline and poor breeding success" for all the king penguin colonies in the region, Weimerskirch said.

(Study: World's Largest King Penguin Colony Declines Sharply, VOA)

The world's largest colony of king penguins has declined by nearly 90 percent in 35 years, according to an alarming study published in Antarctic Science.

(Study: World's Largest King Penguin Colony Declines Sharply, VOA)

The event temporarily pushed the fish and squid on which king penguins depend beyond their foraging range.

(Study: World's Largest King Penguin Colony Declines Sharply, VOA)

It is completely unexpected, and particularly significant since this colony represented nearly one third of the king penguins in the world, said lead author Henri Weimerskirch, an ecologist at the Center for Biological Studies in Chize, France, who first saw the colony in 1982.

(Study: World's Largest King Penguin Colony Declines Sharply, VOA)