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phocine

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈfəʊsʌɪn/Part of speech adjectiveSorted cehinopStarts with PEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. of or relating to seals

Word origin

From Latin phōca (“seal”) (from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē)) + -ine.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • […] 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.

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