OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 28256

phocine

/ˈfəʊsʌɪn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
fócido
Pertaining to a seal (or similar pinnipeds); seallike.
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…
[…] she had already yanked out of me the coveted section [of the newspaper] and retreated to her mat near her phocine mamma.
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