| NOUN | animal | porpoise | any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth |
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| Sounds | pao'rpahs | |
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| Rhymes | abacus ... zealous: 1164 rhymes with ahs... | |
| Meaning | Any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth. | |
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| Member of | Phocoena, genus Phocoena | porpoises |
| Narrower | harbor porpoise, herring hog, Phocoena phocoena | The common porpoise of the northern Atlantic and Pacific |
| vaquita, Phocoena sinus | A short porpoise that lives in the Gulf of California | |
| Broader | dolphin | Any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout |
| Spanish | marsopa | |
| Catalan | marsopa, marsuí | |
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