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King penguin is a noun.
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WHAT DOES KING PENGUIN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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King penguin

The king penguin is the second largest species of penguin at 70 to 100 cm tall and weighs 11 to 16 kg. In size it is second only to the emperor penguin. There are two subspecies—A. p. patagonicus and A. p. halli; patagonicus is found in the South Atlantic and halli elsewhere. King penguins eat small fish, mainly lanternfish, and squid and rely less than most Southern Ocean predators on krill and other crustaceans. On foraging trips they repeatedly dive to over 100 metres, and have been recorded at depths greater than 300 metres. King penguins breed on the subantarctic islands at the northern reaches of Antarctica, South Georgia, and other temperate islands of the region.

Definition of king penguin in the English dictionary

The definition of king penguin in the dictionary is a large penguin, Aptenodytes patagonica, found on islands bordering the Antarctic Circle.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE KING PENGUIN

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Synonyms and antonyms of king penguin in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «king penguin» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF KING PENGUIN

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The translations of king penguin from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «king penguin» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

王企鹅
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

rey pingüino
570 millions of speakers

English

king penguin
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

राजा पेंगुइन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الملك البطريق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

король пингвинов
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pinguim de rei
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

রাজা পেংগুইন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

manchot royal
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Raja penguin
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Königs-Pinguin
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

キングペンギン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

킹 펭귄
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

King penguin
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vua chim cánh cụt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ராஜா பென்குயின்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

राजा पेंग्विन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kral pengueni
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

re pinguino
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pingwin
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

король пінгвінів
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

regele pinguin
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

βασιλιάς penguin
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

koning pikkewyn
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

kung pingvin
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

kongepingvin
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «KING PENGUIN»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KING PENGUIN»

Discover the use of king penguin in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to king penguin and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Behavior of Penguins: Adapted to Ice and Tropics
Feathers cover the bill and feet more extensively than in the king penguin. In the emperor penguin, only the toes are visible, while there are no feathers on the tarsus-metatarsus of the king penguin. Similarly, among the long-tailed ( Pygoscelis) ...
Dietland Müller-Schwarze, 1984
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Penguin-Pedia: Photographs and Facts from One Man's Search ...
1999. “Seasonal Change in Foraging Areas and Dive Depths ofBreeding King Penguins at Heard Island.” PolarBiology 21:376–84. Olsson, O. 1996. “Seasonal Effects ofTiming and Reproduction in the King Penguin: A Unique Breeding Cycle.
David Salomon, 2012
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The Antarctic Dictionary: A Complete Guide to Antarctic English
The penguin Aptenodytes patagonicus: see king penguin 1879 IKerguelen Island1 Sharpe. R. Bowdler in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 1 68: 153. One day while grappling for Algce in Swain's Bay I came with one ...
Bernadette Hince, 2000
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Penguin Biology
To date, such changes have been determined almost exclusively in breeding fasting emperor and king penguins and in king penguin chicks starving during winter (molting penguins are not considered here). 1. Plasma Metabolites and ...
Lloyd S. Davis, John T. Darby, 1990
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The Life Cycle of a Penguin
(Table of Contents Egg 5 Chick 7 Young Penguin 11 Adult 17 The Life Cycle 21 Words to Know 22 Read More 23 Internet Sites 23 Index/Word List 24 Photographs in this book show the life cycle of a king penguin. Egg A penguin begins life as ...
Lisa Trumbauer, 2003
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Penguin
description of the king penguin, adding further information and interpretation to that previously known. In the European imagination, penguins were gaining in sophistication and, consequently, in qualities: The penguin ofthe first class [of ...
Stephen Martin, 2009
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Inheritance Theory: An Artificial Intelligence Approach
From the penguin node downward, we need to reason with regard to its related class king. penguin. Because king. penguin is related to the class penguin and neither an exceptional class nor an acquired property is provided to the class ...
Raad Al-Asady, 1995
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A Visitor's Guide to South Georgia: Second Edition
Ted Cheeseman King penguins by river; St. Andrews Bay. Graham Robertson King penguins in sea. David Tipling King penguin, pencil sketch. Mandy Shepherd Moulting king penguin; Royal Bay. Graham Robertson King penguin and chick; ...
Sally Poncet, Kim Crosbie, 2012
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The Lost Worlds of Buckstevenson
Day 1 in Penguin Pole Holly Dog, AJ Lu, and I were in Penguin Pole and we were off to talk to the King Penguin. As we were walking I saw Frankie Coffan in an orange robe. "Frankie, why did you join the Phoenix Monks, I thought we were  ...
Steven Butler, Jr., 2010
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Encyclopedia of the Antarctic
There is continuing argument over the number and taxonomy of several penguin species, but the king penguin is clearly distinct. The latest taxonomy places the king and emperor penguins with the brush-tailed (Pygoscelis), crested (Eudyptes ) ...
Beau Riffenburgh, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KING PENGUIN»

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Penguin chick overcomes water fear with swimming lessons
A penguin chick "terrified" of water after falling into a Gloucestershire penguin pool, has been taught to swim. The 10-month-old king penguin ... «BBC News, Jul 15»
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Quark Expeditions adds a penguin safari and nine fly-cruise options
This includes visits to South Georgia's famed king penguin rookeries, historic whaling stations, the final resting place of explorer Sir Ernest ... «World of Cruising, Jul 15»
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Meet Charlotte: The king penguin who is afraid of water
The aquaphobic king penguin was hatched at Birdland in Bourton-on-the-Water, Glos, where she has been handreared by head keeper Alistair ... «Express.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Plucky King Penguin Befriends Horses
Conservation officer Sarah Crofts noticed the unlikely friendship unfolding in the Falkland Islands, at Cape Pembrokeshire Nature Reserve. «Yahoo News UK, Jul 15»
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South Georgia received record number of visitors during 2014/15 …
Almost as popular was the vast king penguin colony at Salisbury Plain with 47 visits. There were two new vessels in the 2014/15 season ... «MercoPress, Jul 15»
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Xeno-canto: crowdsourcing the world's bird songs
Sonogram of the first 10 seconds from a sound recording of the vocalisations produced by a king penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus, recorded ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
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The Festival of Insignificance, by Milan Kundera: charming in so …
Kundera stated in an interview with Philip Roth, in the King Penguin edition of The Book of Laughter and Forgetting in the 1980s, that he spurns ... «The Independent, Jun 15»
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King Penguin tells how it'll turn the Lawyers Building into The …
New York-based King Penguin Opportunity Fund took another formal step Tuesday in the process of dusting off a long-ago building name and ... «Pittsburgh Business Times, Jun 15»
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Saving puffins and 'King Penguin,' too
“Project Puffin: The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock” (Yale University Press, 2015) is written by Stephen W. «Cornell Chronicle, Jun 15»
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New York investor close to adding second downtown building to …
On the heels of closing on the Lawyers building a few months ago, New York-based King Penguin Opportunity Fund is preparing to cross ... «Pittsburgh Business Times, Apr 15»

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