phocine

Nov. 14th, 2011 07:19 am
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phocine (foh-sayn) - adj., of, pertaining to, or resembling a seal.


As in the marine mammal with flippers. Coined in the 1840s from Latin phōca, seal, from Greek phōkē, seal.

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