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Puerto Rico Highway 52
Puerto Rico Highway 52, officially the Luis A. Ferré Highway, is a toll highway running 67 miles from San Juan to Ponce, the island's longest toll road.
Puerto Rico Highway 53
Puerto Rico Highway 53 (PR-53), officially the José Celso Barbosa Highway, is a toll expressway in eastern Puerto Rico running 59.3 km from Fajardo through Humacao to Yabucoa.
Puerto Rico men's national basketball team
Puerto Rico men's national basketball team (PUR), FIBA Americas senior team. Ranked 17th; beat Team USA at Athens 2004; 12th at 2023 World Cup; won 2024 OQT to reach Paris Olympics.
Puerto Rico national football team
Puerto Rico national football team, El Huracán Azul, men's team of the Federación Puertorriqueña de Fútbol (FIFA member since 1960). Never qualified for a Gold Cup; perfect 2022-23 Nations League group, 7-0 over Bahamas in 2022 WCQ, ranked 155th in 2025.
Puerto Rico Trench
Puerto Rico Trench (Brownson Deep): deepest place in the Atlantic Ocean at about 8,400 m, a Caribbean-North American plate boundary trench north of Puerto Rico with Earth's most negative gravity anomaly, -380 mGal, and major tsunami hazard.
Puerto Rosales-La Plata Oil Pipeline
The Puerto Rosales-La Plata oil pipeline is an Argentine crude oil pipeline running 585 kilometers from the Atlantic coast to the La Plata refinery, operated by YPF.
Puerto Vallarta
Puerto Vallarta, formerly Las Peñas, is a resort city and municipality on Banderas Bay, Jalisco, Mexico, founded 1851, made a municipality 1918 and a city 1968, named for jurist Ignacio L. Vallarta.
Puerto Williams
Puerto Williams is a Chilean port town on Navarino Island in the Beagle Channel, reclassified as a city in 2019 and the world's southernmost city by Chile's reckoning.
Puertollano renewable fuels plant
The Puertollano renewable fuels plant is a Repsol facility in Ciudad Real, Spain, which began producing 200,000 metric tons of renewable diesel per year from organic waste in May 2026.
PUF (Pumilio) proteins
PUF (Pumilio and FBF) proteins are conserved eukaryotic RNA-binding proteins with an eight-repeat PUM-HD domain that binds 3′UTR motifs such as UGUAnAUA, repressing targets via deadenylation; mammalian PUM1/PUM2 regulate stem cells, development, and neurology.
Puff adder
Puff adder (Bitis arietans), a large African viper ranging from Senegal to South Africa and Arabia; ambush predator with hemotoxic, cytotoxic venom and a leading cause of African snakebite envenoming.
Puff Kuo (郭雪芙)
Puff Kuo (郭雪芙, Puff Guo), Taiwanese singer and actress; Dream Girls member from 2010, star of Light the Night and At the Moment, first Golden Bell nomination 2024.
Puff pastry
Puff pastry (pâte feuilletée) is an unleavened laminated dough of alternating dough and butter layers, up to 700, that rises by steam alone when baked; distinct from yeasted croissant dough and low-fat phyllo.
Puff-puff (onomatopoeia)
Puff-puff (ぱふぱふ, pafu pafu) is a Japanese onomatopoeia coined by Akira Toriyama in Dragon Ball chapter 15 for a face pressed between breasts; it became a recurring gag and battle skill in the Dragon Quest games.
Puff, the Magic Dragon
Puff, the Magic Dragon, also known simply as "Puff," is a 1963 folk song by Peter, Paul and Mary, written by Peter Yarrow from Leonard Lipton's 1959 Cornell poem. It peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100; both writers denied it was about marijuana.
Puffball
Puffball, common name for gasteroid Basidiomycete fungi (Lycoperdon, Bovista, Calvatia, Vascellum, Morganella) whose spherical fruitbodies release trillions of internal spores in puffs through an apical pore; giant puffball Calvatia gigantea is a choice edible, unlike Amanita egg lookalikes.
Puffball Islands
Puffball Islands, also recorded as Puffball, Islotes (Chile) and Bejin, islotes (Argentina), are scattered ice-covered islets and rocks in southern Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula, named by the FIDS in 1948 after nearby Mushroom Island.
Puffed rice
Puffed rice, also called muri, murmura, khoi, kurmura, or mandakki, is rice expanded by heat and pressure into a light crisp grain, eaten as a South Asian street snack, breakfast cereal, and bhel puri base.
PUFFER (robot)
PUFFER, or Pop-Up Flat Folding Explorer Robot, is a palm-sized, origami-inspired wheeled rover developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory that can flatten its body to crawl into steep, risky terrain.
Puffery
Puffery, or puffing: exaggerated sales or advertising statements treated legally as opinion rather than fact. Spans Carlill (1892), FTC, Lanham Act, securities, and UK CAP Code Rule 3.2.
Puffin
Puffins, four auk-family seabird species (Atlantic, Horned, Tufted Puffin, Rhinoceros Auklet; Fratercula, Cerorhinca), are wing-propelled diving burrow nesters of Northern Hemisphere oceans, with colorful breeding bills and one chick per season.
Puffin crossing
A puffin crossing is a British signal-controlled pedestrian crossing whose sensors detect waiting pedestrians, varying the crossing time and canceling calls when someone walks away.
Puffin Rock
Puffin Rock is an Irish animated preschool series by Cartoon Saloon, Dog Ears, and Penguin Books, narrated by Chris O'Dowd, following puffin siblings Oona and Baba; 79 episodes, award-winning, with a 2023 feature film.
Puffin-World
Puffin-World is a unified multimodal world model released as a 2026 academic preprint, representing 3D scenes through explicit gravity, depth, and appearance states rather than RGB frames alone.
Puffing Billy (locomotive)
Puffing Billy is an early British steam locomotive built in 1813–1814 at Wylam Colliery near Newcastle by William Hedley, and the world's oldest surviving steam locomotive, preserved in London.
Puffinus
Puffinus Brisson, 1760 is a genus of small and medium-sized shearwaters in the petrel family Procellariidae. After the larger species were moved to Ardenna, Puffinus retains about two dozen species including the Manx shearwater.
Puffy AmiYumi (パフィー)
Puffy AmiYumi (パフィー), known in Japan as PUFFY, is a Japanese pop-rock vocal duo of Ami Onuki and Yumi Yoshimura, formed 1995, debuting 1996 with Tamio Okuda-produced "Asia no Junshin"; renamed Puffy AmiYumi in the US after a Sean Combs cease-and-desist.
Pug
Pug: ancient Chinese flat-faced toy companion dog, motto "multum in parvo"; 14–18 lb, silver/apricot-fawn or black; royal history from Chinese emperors to House of Orange; brachycephalic health issues including BOAS and pug encephalitis.
Pugachev
Pugachev (Пугачёв) is a 1921 dramatic poem by Sergei Yesenin about the peasant war of 1773–1775 led by Yemelyan Pugachev, conceived in 1920 and staged at the Taganka Theater in 1967.
Pugachev Rebellion
The Pugachev Rebellion (Пугачёвское восстание), also called the Peasant War of 1773–1775, was a major uprising in the Volga, Urals, and Siberia led by Yemelyan Pugachev, claiming to be Peter III, and crushed in 1774.