单词 | porpoise |
释义 | porpoise (once / 3805 pages) n WORD FAMILY porpoise: porpoises USAGE EXAMPLESBy law, landowners in England and Wales are responsible for the disposal of whales, porpoises or dolphins that wash up on their estates. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) Mexican authorities and scientists are trying to save the world's smallest porpoise by capturing illegal "ghost" fishing nets. BBC(Dec 16, 2016) People commute mindlessly over the Golden Gate Bridge day after day without realizing that whales, sea lions, seals and harbor porpoises congregate here still. Seattle Times(Dec 01, 2016) n any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth Hypo|Hyper Phocoena phocoena, harbor porpoise, herring hog the common porpoise of the northern Atlantic and Pacific Phocoena sinus, vaquitaa short porpoise that lives in the Gulf of California; an endangered species dolphin any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises |
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