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▪ I. pinguin|ˈpɪŋgwɪn|
Also penguin, penquin (pinquin).
[Origin unascertained.]
A West Indian plant (Bromelia Pinguin) allied to the pine-apple, or its fruit; used in fevers and as an anthelmintic.
It is not clear that Dampier's penguin was a Bromelia.
1696Plukenet Almagesta II. 29 Ananas Americana sylvestris altera minor Barbados et Insulæ Jamaica nostratibus colonis Pinguin dicta. 1697W. Dampier Voy. I. 263 There is a sort of fruit growing on these Islands [Chametly], called Penguins: and 'tis all the fruit they have. The Penguin fruit is of two sorts, the yellow and the red. 1711in A. Duncan Mariner's Chron. (1803) III. 316 We..then attempted to get over the hill, but found it impossible to force a way through the penguins, bryars, and other prickly plants which grew there. 1792M. Riddell Voy. Madeira 85 The bromelia karatas, or pinquin, is a fruit resembling a small cucumber in shape. 1871Kingsley At Last i, On one side of the path a hedge of Pinguin.
attrib.1756P. Browne Jamaica 147 This plant..found climbing upon all the pinguin fences. 1894Alice Spinner Study in Colour 16 On the other side of the red pinquin spears she saw a flash of crimson.
▪ II. pinguin
erron. form of penguin. |