atlantic puffin

1. 1.

   common puffin of the northern Atlantic

   SynonymsFratercula arctica

   Broaderpuffin

   Part ofFratercula

Questions about atlantic puffin

What does atlantic puffin mean?

atlantic puffin means "common puffin of the northern Atlantic".

What is another word for atlantic puffin?

Close synonyms include Fratercula arctica. 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 atlantic puffin a common word?

atlantic puffin 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.