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PORPOISE

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• PORPOISE (noun)
The noun PORPOISE has 1 sense:

1. any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth

Familiarity information: PORPOISE used as a noun is very rare.

• PORPOISE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("porpoise" is a kind of...):

dolphin (any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "porpoise"):

harbor porpoise; herring hog; Phocaena phocaena (the common porpoise of the northern Atlantic and Pacific)

Phocaena sinus; vaquita (a short porpoise that lives in the Gulf of California; an endangered species)

Holonyms ("porpoise" is a member of...):

genus Phocaena; Phocaena (porpoises)

"Like cures like."
(English proverb)
"Complete idiot who can keep silent, to a wise man is similar"
(Breton proverb)
"You left them lost and bewildered."
(Arabic proverb)
"Words have no bones, but can break bones."
(Corsican proverb)

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Meaning of dolphin
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Meaning of Phocaena
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