adelie

1. 1.

   medium-sized penguins occurring in large colonies on the Adelie Coast of Antarctica

   SynonymsAdelie penguinPygoscelis adeliae

   Broaderpenguin

   Part ofPygoscelis

Other forms of adelie

plural

adelies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about adelie

What does adelie mean?

adelie means "medium-sized penguins occurring in large colonies on the Adelie Coast of Antarctica".

How many syllables are in adelie?

adelie has 3 syllables: a-de-lie. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for adelie?

Close synonyms include Adelie penguin, Pygoscelis adeliae. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is adelie a common word?

adelie is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.