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# penguin

«penguin» in Mova's school dictionary: **A black-and-white sea bird that cannot fly, swims very…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a penguin, penguins)

### meaning for a pupil

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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/penguin/#m1)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/penguin/#x1)
- Emperor penguins huddle together to keep warm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/penguin/#x2)
- The penguin waddled across the ice. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/penguin/#x4)
- Little penguins come ashore at night in Australia and New Zealand. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/penguin/#x6)
- Penguins eat fish, squid and krill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/penguin/#x7)
- The father penguin keeps the egg warm on his feet. [tree →](https://md.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.

### In the corpora

- [Emperor penguins find their partners and chicks among thousands of others by recognising their calls.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/6/)
- [Penguins also keep warm with a thick layer of fat and tightly packed waterproof feathers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/99-the-penguin-pool/11/)
- [The penguins in Madagascar are four, but real penguins live in big colonies, sometimes of thousands.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/99-the-penguin-pool/17/)
- [Wild penguins live only in the southern half of the world; none live in Madagascar or at the North Pole.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/129-madagascar-real-penguins-and-chimps/5/)
- [The Galapagos penguin lives on the equator, kept cool by cold ocean currents.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/129-madagascar-real-penguins-and-chimps/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «penguin» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/penguin/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.