Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - porpoise
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Porpoise
porpoise
I. noun Etymology: Middle English porpoys, from Anglo-French porpeis, from Medieval Latin porcopiscis, from Latin porcus pig + piscis fish — more at farrow, fish Date: 14th century 1. any of a family (Phocoenidae) of small gregarious toothed whales; especially a blunt-snouted usually largely black whale (Phocoena phocoena) of the North Atlantic and North Pacific that is five to eight feet (1.5 to 2.4 meters) long 2. dolphin 1a(1) II. intransitive verb Date: 1909 1. to leap or plunge like a ~ penguins…~ out of the water — David Lewis 2. to rise and fall repeatedly
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n. any of various small toothed whales of the family Phocaenidae, esp. of the genus Phocaena, with a low triangular dorsal fin and a blunt rounded snout. Etymology: ME porpays etc. f. OF po(u)rpois etc. ult. f. L porcus pig + piscis fish ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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мам. морская свинья (Phocoena); pl морские свиньи (Phocoenidae) – Amazon porpoise – Atlantic white-sided porpoise – bicolored porpoise – black porpoise – black finless porpoise – bottle-nosed porpoise – Burmeister's porpoise – coastal porpoise – common porpoise – Dall's porpoise – finless porpoise – gray porpoise – gulf porpoise – harbor porpoise – Indian porpoise – Indian finless porpoise – northern right whale porpoise – Pacific porpoise – Pacific harbor porpoise – Pacific right whale porpoise – Pacific striped porpoise – piebald porpoise – saddleback porpoise – Southeast Asiatic porpoise – southern right whale porpoise – southern striped porpoise – spectacled porpoise – striped porpoise – subantarctic porpoise – white-beaked porpoise – white-bellied porpoise ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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1. зоол. морская свинья, дельфин (Phocaena gen.) 2. ав. жарг. подпрыгивать, "козлить" 3. мор. жарг. дельфинировать ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun морская свинья; бурный дельфин 2. v. aeron.; sl. подпрыгивать, барсить, козлить ...Англо-русский словарь
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(porpoises) A porpoise is a sea animal that looks like a large grey fish. Porpoises usually swim about in groups. N-COUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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- 1310, from O.Fr. porpais, lit. "pork fish," from porc "pork" + peis "fish," from L. piscis "fish." The O.Fr. word is probably a loan-translation of a Gmc. word, cf. M.Du. mereswijn "porpoise." Classical L. had a similar name, porculus marinus (in Pliny), and the notion is probably a fancied resemblance of the snout to that of a pig. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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