MACARONI PENGUIN


Meaning of MACARONI PENGUIN in English

■ noun a penguin with an orange crest, breeding on islands in the Antarctic. [ Eudyptes chrysolophus .]

Origin

C19: so named because the orange crest was thought to resemble the hairstyle of the macaronies (see macaroni in sense 2).

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