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porpoise

DEFINITIONS OF: porpoise

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

Types:
Phocoena phocoena, harbor porpoise, herring hog
the common porpoise of the northern Atlantic and Pacific
Phocoena sinus, vaquita
a short porpoise that lives in the Gulf of California; an endangered species
Type of:
dolphin
any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises
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