fratercula arctica

1. 1.

   common puffin of the northern Atlantic

   SynonymsAtlantic puffin

   Broaderpuffin

   Part ofFratercula

Questions about fratercula arctica

What does fratercula arctica mean?

fratercula arctica means "common puffin of the northern Atlantic".

What is another word for fratercula arctica?

Close synonyms include Atlantic puffin. 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 fratercula arctica a common word?

fratercula arctica 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.