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porpoise
English
Etymology
From Middle English porpeys, purpeys, borrowed from Anglo-Norman porpeis, purpeis, Old French pourpois, porpois, pourpais, porpeis (“porpoise”), from Vulgar Latin *porcopiscis (“porpoise”, literally “pig-fish”), from Latin porcus (“pig”) + piscis (“fish”). Compare (in transposed order) obsolete Italian pesce porco and Portuguese peixe porco; also Latin porcus marinus (“sea hog”), akin in formation to German Meerschwein, English mereswine. More at mereswine.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?p??p?s/, /p???p??s/
- (US) IPA(key): /?p???p?s/
- Rhymes: -??(?)p?s, -??s
Noun
porpoise (plural porpoises)
- A small cetacean of the family Phocoenidae, related to dolphins and whales.
- Synonyms: garfish, mereswine, sea hog, sea pig, seaswine
- (Canada, US, imprecisely) Any small dolphin.
Translations
Verb
porpoise (third-person singular simple present porpoises, present participle porpoising, simple past and past participle porpoised)
- (intransitive) Said of an air-breathing aquatic animal such as a porpoise or penguin: To repeatedly jump out of the water to take a breath and dive back in a continuous motion.
- (intransitive) Said of an aircraft: to make a series of plunges when taking off or landing; or of a watercraft: to successively plunge up and down in the water.
See also
- dolphin
- killer whale
- pod
- sea lion
- seal
- whale
- Appendix:English collective nouns
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ichthyosaur
English
Etymology
From translingual Ichthyosaurus
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??k?i?s???/
Noun
ichthyosaur (plural ichthyosaurs)
- Any of several fishlike marine reptiles of the extinct order Ichthyosauria of the early Triassic to the late Cretaceous period, that had a body somewhat like a porpoise. [from c. 1830]
Synonyms
- ichthyosaurus
Translations
ichthyosaur From the web:
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- what did ichthyosaurus eat
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