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"Porpoise" Definition

Word Fact:
Porpoise literally means "pork-fish."

noun

Any of several gregarious toothed whales of the genus Phocaena and related genera, of oceanic waters, characteristically having a blunt snout and a triangular dorsal fin. Also called sea hog.
Any of several related aquatic mammals, such as the dolphin.
A blunt-snouted usually largely black whale () of the North Atlantic and North Pacific that is five to eight feet (1.5 to 2.4 meters) long.
Any of a family (Phocoenidae) of small gregarious toothed whales.

verb

To leap or plunge like a porpoise .
To rise and fall repeatedly.

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