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Orca vs. Penguin — What's the Difference?

Orca vs. Penguin — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Orca and Penguin

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Orca

A black-and-white toothed whale (Orcinus orca) that feeds on large fish, squid, and marine mammals such as seals and other whales and dolphins. Also called killer whale.

Penguin

Penguins (order Sphenisciformes , family Spheniscidae ) are a group of aquatic flightless birds. They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere, with only one species, the Galápagos penguin, found north of the Equator.

Orca

A sea mammal (Orcinus orca) related to dolphins and porpoises, commonly called the killer whale.

Penguin

Any of various stout, flightless aquatic birds of the family Spheniscidae, of the Southern Hemisphere, having flipperlike wings and webbed feet adapted for swimming and diving, short scalelike feathers, and white underparts with a dark back.

Orca

The killer whale (Orcinus orca).
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Penguin

(Obsolete) The great auk.

Orca

Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas

Penguin

Any of several flightless sea birds, of order Sphenisciformes, found in the Southern Hemisphere, marked by their usual upright stance, walking on short legs, and (generally) their stark black and white plumage.

Penguin

An auk (sometimes especially a great auk), a bird of the Northern Hemisphere.

Penguin

(slang) A nun (association through appearance, because of the often black-and-white habit).

Penguin

(juggling) A type of catch where the palm of the hand is facing towards the leg with the arm stretched downward, resembling the flipper of a penguin.

Penguin

A spiny bromeliad with egg-shaped fleshy fruit, Bromelia pinguin.

Penguin

A member of the air force who does not fly aircraft.

Penguin

Any bird of the order Impennes, or Ptilopteri. They are covered with short, thick feathers, almost scalelike on the wings, which are without true quills. They are unable to fly, but use their wings to aid in diving, in which they are very expert. See King penguin, under Jackass.

Penguin

The egg-shaped fleshy fruit of a West Indian plant (Bromelia Pinguin) of the Pineapple family; also, the plant itself, which has rigid, pointed, and spiny-toothed leaves, and is used for hedges.

Penguin

Short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet and wings modified as flippers

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