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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
gentoo /dʒɛnˈtuː/

▶noun a tall penguin with a white triangular patch above the eye. [Pygoscelis papua.]

– origin C19: perh. from Anglo-Ind. Gentoo ‘a Hindu’, from Port. gentio ‘gentile’.

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