phocine
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈfəʊsʌɪn/, /ˈfəʊsiːn/
phocine
- Pertaining to a seal (or similar pinnipeds); seallike. [from 19th c.]
- 1871, New York Daily Standard, 28 Dec 1871:
- 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.
- 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:
- she had already yanked out of me the coveted section and retreated to her mat near her phocine mamma.
- 1987, William Boyd (writer), The New Confessions:
- She walked over towards me with an odd elegance, big strides, like a champion girl swimmer, say; muscled but lean, with a phocine grace.
- 1871, New York Daily Standard, 28 Dec 1871:
- Spanish: fócido
phocine (plural phocines)
- (zoology) A member of the subfamily Phocinae, comprising the "true" or "earless" seals.
- 2007, Brian Keith Hall, Fins into Limbs, p. 313:
- Phocines anchor their hands by flexing their fingers, digging them into the substrate, and then pulling their body forward by elbow and shoulder flexion.
- 2007, Brian Keith Hall, Fins into Limbs, p. 313:
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