What's the difference between a penguin and an auk?
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Auk
//ɔːk//
Synonyms for "auk" (3 found)
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8 entriesis a
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6 entriesTranslations
29 translations across 28 languages.
Asturian
1 entries- pingüín noun (seabird of the family Alcidae)
Bulgarian
1 entries- гагарка noun (seabird of the family Alcidae)
Catalan
1 entries- àlcid noun (seabird of the family Alcidae)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 海雀科 noun (seabird of the family Alcidae)
Czech
1 entries- alka noun (seabird of the family Alcidae)
Dutch
1 entries- alk noun (seabird of the family Alcidae)
Esperanto
1 entries- aŭko noun (seabird of the family Alcidae)
Faroese
1 entries- svartfuglur noun (seabird of the family Alcidae)
Finnish
1 entries- ruokki noun (seabird of the family Alcidae)
French
1 entries- pingouin noun (seabird of the family Alcidae)
Galician
1 entries- arao romeiro noun (seabird of the family Alcidae)
German
1 entries- Alk noun (seabird of the family Alcidae)
Hindi
1 entries- अलका noun (seabird of the family Alcidae)
Hungarian
1 entries- alka noun (seabird of the family Alcidae)
Irish
1 entries- falcóg noun (seabird of the family Alcidae)
Italian
1 entries- alca noun (seabird of the family Alcidae)
Japanese
1 entries- 海雀 noun (seabird of the family Alcidae)
Manx
1 entries- alk noun (seabird of the family Alcidae)
Marathi
1 entries- अलका noun (seabird of the family Alcidae)
Old Norse
1 entries- alka noun (seabird of the family Alcidae)
Polish
1 entries- alka noun (seabird of the family Alcidae)
Portuguese
1 entries- torda noun (seabird of the family Alcidae)
Romanian
2 entries- alcă noun (seabird of the family Alcidae)
- pinguin nordic noun (seabird of the family Alcidae)
Russian
1 entries- гага́рка noun (seabird of the family Alcidae)
Slovak
1 entries- alka noun (seabird of the family Alcidae)
Spanish
1 entries- alca noun (seabird of the family Alcidae)
Swedish
1 entries- alka noun (seabird of the family Alcidae)
Welsh
1 entries- carfil noun (seabird of the family Alcidae)
Sample sentences
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Further afield, these auks are also in dire straits: Norway has seen vertiginous crashes, with hundreds of thousands of adult puffins in the once-teeming colony of Røst struggling to fledge any chicks in recent years.
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