Defenition of the word porpoise

• Defenition of the word porpoise

  • A short-snouted genus of the dolphin family, 1.2 to 2.5 metres (4 to 8 feet) long, gregarious in habits, yielding an oil and leather.
  • any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth

Meronymys for the word porpoise

• • genus Phocaena
  • Phocaena

Hyponyms for the word porpoise

• • harbor porpoise
  • herring hog
  • Phocaena phocaena
  • Phocaena sinus
  • phocoena phocoena
  • phocoena sinus
  • vaquita

Hypernyms for the word porpoise

• • dolphin

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