different between phoca vs phocacean

English

Etymology

From Latin phoca, from Ancient Greek ???? (ph?k?).

Noun

phoca (plural phocas or phocae)

1. (obsolete) A seal.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.viii:

     His charet swift in haste he thither steard, / Which with a teeme of scaly Phocas bound / Was drawne vpon the waues, that fomed him around.

Anagrams

• copha, phaco, phaco-, poach

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (ph?k?).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?p?o?.ka/, [?p?o?kä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fo.ka/, [?f??k?]

Noun

ph?ca f (genitive ph?cae); first declension

1. seal (marine animal)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• phoca in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• phoca in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• phoca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Wikispecies

Noun

phocacean (plural phocaceans)

1. (zoology) Any species of Phoca; a seal.

Hypernyms

• phocid