Phocine
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈfəʊsʌɪn/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Phocine is an adjective meaning Pertaining to a seal (or similar pinnipeds); seallike.
Meaning
Pertaining to a seal (or similar pinnipeds); seallike.
More Meanings
- (zoology) A member of the subfamily Phocinae, comprising the "true" or "earless" seals.
Example Sentences
[…] she had already yanked out of me the coveted section [of the newspaper] and retreated to her mat near her phocine mamma.
She walked over towards me with an odd elegance, big strides, like a champion girl swimmer, say; muscled but lean, with a phocine grace.
Phocines anchor their hands by flexing their fingers, digging them into the substrate, and then pulling their body forward by elbow and shoulder flexion.
He telegraphed to the whaling ports of New England, and sent messages to San Francisco and Alaska, to know if a group of sea lions and other specimens of the phocine tribe could be secured.
Word Forms
- phocines
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fin-footed, percesocine, delphinine, percine, fuliguline, piscinal.
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