the porpoise

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sea hog
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Any small dolphin
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Said of an aircraft: to make a series of plunges when taking off or landing
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Called also harbor porpoise, herring hag, puffing pig, and snuffer
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A true dolphin (Delphinus); often so called by sailors
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The color is dusky or blackish above, paler beneath
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The coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree (Pisonia obtusata) of Florida and the West Indies
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The quality or state of
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A small cetacean of the family Phocoenidae, related to whales and dolphins
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They are closely allied to the dolphins, but have a shorter snout
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A treatise on prostitutes, or prostitution
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Americana
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Lascivious; licentious
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{i} species of dolphin, type of marine mammal
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communis, or P
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phocæna, of Europe, and the closely allied American species P
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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
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any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth
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Any small cetacean of the genus Phocæna, especially P
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Also called pigeon wood, beefwood, and corkwood
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any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth A young hog; a pig
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Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies
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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
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A pig; a porket
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Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic writing
the porpoise

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    the por·poise

    Türkische aussprache

    dhi pôrpıs

    Aussprache

    /ᴛʜē ˈpôrpəs/ /ðiː ˈpɔːrpəs/
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