The vaquita is a porpoise species endemic to Mexico, living in the northern end of the Gulf of California, and is considered to be in danger of extinction.
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Porpoise
//ˈpɔːɹpəs//
Synonyms for "porpoise" (56 found)
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Related words (28)
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10 entriesTranslations
96 translations across 72 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- marsuinët noun (cetacean)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- φώκαινα noun (cetacean)
Arabic
1 entries- خِنْزِير الْبَحْر noun (cetacean)
Armenian
1 entries- ծովախոզ noun (cetacean)
Asturian
3 entries- boticu noun (cetacean)
- botu noun (cetacean)
- moscote noun (cetacean)
Belarusian
1 entries- марска́я свіння́ noun (cetacean)
Breton
1 entries- morhoc'h noun (cetacean)
Bulgarian
1 entries- тъпонос делфин noun (cetacean)
Catalan
1 entries- marsopa noun (cetacean)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᏗᏁᏍᏆᏕᎩᏳᏍᏗ noun (cetacean)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 鼠海豚 noun (cetacean)
Cornish
1 entries- morhogh noun (cetacean)
Czech
1 entries- sviňucha noun (cetacean)
Dutch
1 entries- bruinvis noun (cetacean)
Eastern Mari
1 entries- вӱд сӧсна noun (cetacean)
Esperanto
1 entries- foceno noun (cetacean)
Faroese
1 entries- nísa noun (cetacean)
Finnish
2 entries- delfiini noun (imprecisely, any small dolphin)
- pyöriäinen noun (cetacean)
French
1 entries- marsouin noun (cetacean)
Galician
4 entries- fouliña noun (cetacean)
- porco de mar noun (cetacean)
- toniña noun (cetacean)
- touliña noun (cetacean)
Georgian
2 entries- დელფინი noun (cetacean)
- ზღვის ღორი noun (cetacean)
German
2 entries- Schweinswal noun (cetacean)
- Tümmler noun (cetacean)
Greek
1 entries- γουρουνόψαρο noun (cetacean)
Greenlandic
1 entries- niisa noun (cetacean)
Hindi
1 entries- सूंस noun (cetacean)
Hungarian
3 entries- barna delfin noun (cetacean)
- disznódelfin noun (cetacean)
- tengeridisznó noun (cetacean)
Icelandic
2 entries- hnísa noun (cetacean)
- marsvín noun (cetacean)
Irish
1 entries- muc mhara noun (cetacean)
Italian
1 entries- focena noun (cetacean)
Japanese
1 entries- ネズミイルカ noun (cetacean)
Khmer
1 entries- សមុទ្រសុករ noun (cetacean)
Kildin Sami
1 entries- нышшь noun (cetacean)
Klallam
1 entries- k'ʷánət' noun (cetacean)
Korean
2 entries- 돌고래 noun (cetacean)
- 쇠돌고래 noun (cetacean)
Lao
1 entries- ເດິນຟິນໜູ noun (cetacean)
Lithuanian
1 entries- jūrų kiaulė noun (cetacean)
Low German
2 entries- Dümmler noun (cetacean)
- Trömmelswien noun (cetacean)
Macedonian
1 entries- мо́рска сви́ња noun (cetacean)
Middle English
2 entries- mereswyn noun (cetacean)
- porpeys noun (cetacean)
Māori
1 entries- tūpoupou noun (cetacean)
Navajo
1 entries- tééh hóyáanii noun (cetacean)
Nootka
1 entries- hicwin noun (cetacean)
Norman
1 entries- pourpais noun (cetacean)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- nise noun (cetacean)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- nise noun (cetacean)
Old English
1 entries- mereswīn noun (cetacean)
Old Norse
1 entries- hnísa noun (cetacean)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- طوڭوز بالغی noun (cetacean)
- یونس بالغی noun (cetacean)
Persian
2 entries- خوکماهی noun (cetacean)
- گرازماهی noun (cetacean)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Mäaschwien noun (cetacean)
Polish
1 entries- morświn noun (cetacean)
Portuguese
2 entries- boto noun (imprecisely, any small dolphin)
- marsuíno noun (cetacean)
Romanian
1 entries- marsuin noun (cetacean)
Romansch
1 entries- balena-portg noun (cetacean)
Russian
1 entries- морска́я свинья́ noun (cetacean)
Scots
1 entries- dunter noun (cetacean)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- cana noun (cetacean)
- peileag noun (cetacean)
- puthag noun (cetacean)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- morsko prase noun (cetacean)
- pliskavica noun (cetacean)
- морско прасе noun (cetacean)
- плискавица noun (cetacean)
Slovak
1 entries- sviňucha noun (cetacean)
Slovene
1 entries- pliskavka noun (cetacean)
Spanish
1 entries- marsopa noun (cetacean)
Squamish
1 entries- kwʼúnutʼ noun (cetacean)
Swahili
1 entries- poposi noun (cetacean)
Swedish
2 entries- tumlare noun (cetacean)
- tumlare noun (imprecisely, any small dolphin)
Tagalog
1 entries- marsopa noun (cetacean)
Telugu
1 entries- నీరుపంది noun (cetacean)
Thai
1 entries- พอร์พอยส์ noun (cetacean)
Turkish
1 entries- musur noun (cetacean)
Ukrainian
1 entries- морська́ свиня́ noun (cetacean)
Vietnamese
1 entries- cá heo noun (cetacean)
Welsh
2 entries- llamhidydd noun (cetacean)
- morhwch noun (cetacean)
Wolof
1 entries- piipa bi noun (cetacean)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Human and elephant, mouse and porpoise, all have three small bones in their middle ear — the hammer, the anvil, and the stirrup.
Source: tatoeba (11257457)
They captured 25 porpoises and set them free back into the Yangtze after raising them for a month in Puqi County, Hubei.
Source: wiktionary
Urging them to join me, I raced in circles through the surging water, chased my tail for the children, blew spouts of foam through the sunfilled spray, porpoised to and fro across the river in shallow leaps that stitched the air and water into a table-lace of foam.
Source: wiktionary
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