Meaning of phocine | Babel Free

Definitions

Pertaining to a seal (or similar pinnipeds); seallike.

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Examples

“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 secured.”

“[…] she had already yanked out of me the coveted section [of the newspaper] and retreated to her mat near her phocine mamma.”

“She walked over towards me with an odd elegance, big strides, like a champion girl swimmer, say; muscled but lean, with a phocine grace.”

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