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PORPOISE

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 I. (noun) 

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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; Phocoena phocoena (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)

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

genus Phocoena; Phocoena (porpoises)

 II. (verb) 

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Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb porpoise

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