puffin

Definitions

• (now) The young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food.
• The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) or (by extension) any of the other various small seabirds of the genera Fratercula and that are black and white with a brightly-coloured beak.
• (entomology) Any of various African and Asian pierid butterflies of the genus . Some species of this genus are also known as albatrosses.
• (obsolete) A puffball.