porpoise

Englisch - Türkisch

Definition von porpoise im Englisch Türkisch wörterbuch

Phocaena communis

yunusbalığına benzer bir balık

i., zool

{i} domuz balığı

{i} yunus ailesinden bir tür balık

Phocaena phocaena

yunusbalığı

domuzbalık

domuzbalığı

(Denizbilim) yunus

Relevante Übersetzungen

porpoising

yunuslama

Englisch - Englisch

Definition von porpoise im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

Any small dolphin

Said of an aircraft: to make a series of plunges when taking off or landing

A small cetacean of the family Phocoenidae, related to whales and dolphins

Called also harbor porpoise, herring hag, puffing pig, and snuffer

A true dolphin (Delphinus); often so called by sailors

The color is dusky or blackish above, paler beneath

The coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree (Pisonia obtusata) of Florida and the West Indies

The quality or state of

They are closely allied to the dolphins, but have a shorter snout

A treatise on prostitutes, or prostitution

Americana

Lascivious; licentious

{i} species of dolphin, type of marine mammal

communis, or P

phocæna, of Europe, and the closely allied American species P

A porpoise is a sea animal that looks like a large grey fish. Porpoises usually swim about in groups. a sea animal that looks similar to a dolphin and breathes air (porpois, from porcopiscis, from porcus ( PORK) + piscis ). Any toothed whale in the family Phocoenidae (or, by some authorities, part of the dolphin family Delphinidae). The four species (genus Phocoena) of the common, or harbour, porpoise are primarily fish eaters that travel in pairs or large groups. They are gray or black above and white below. The shy P. phocoena, found throughout the Northern Hemisphere, rarely leaps. The other species of Phocoena are found along Californian and South American coasts. The active, gregarious Dall porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli) of the North Pacific and the True porpoise (P. truei) of Japan often swim with ships, usually in groups of 2 to

any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth

Any small cetacean of the genus Phocæna, especially P

Also called pigeon wood, beefwood, and corkwood

any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth A young hog; a pig

Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies

Both eat cephalopods and fishes and are black with a large white patch on each side. The black finless porpoise (Neomeris phocoenoides), a small, slow animal, inhabits the Pacific and Indian oceans. At most 7 ft (2 m) long, porpoises are shorter and chubbier than dolphins and have a blunt snout. Like the dolphins, they are known for their high intelligence

A pig; a porket

Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic writing

Relevante Übersetzungen

porpoise oil

a yellow fatty oil obtained from porpoises and used as a fine lubricant

A porpoise

dunter

A porpoise

pellack

A porpoise

porpus

A porpoise

porpesse

The porpoise

sea hog

harbor porpoise

the common porpoise of the northern Atlantic and Pacific

porpoises

Plural of porpoise

porpoises

phocaena

Silbentrennung

por·poise

Türkische aussprache

pôrpıs

Synonyme

mereswine

Aussprache

/ˈpôrpəs/ /ˈpɔːrpəs/

Etymologie

() From Old French pourpois, from Vulgar Latin porcopiscis, pisciporcus 'swine fish' (compare obsolete Italian pesce porco, Portuguese peixe porco), for Latin porcus marinus 'sea hog', akin in formation to German Meerschwein.