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▸ noun: (Canada, US, imprecisely) Any small dolphin.
▸ verb: (intransitive) Said of an air-breathing aquatic animal such as a porpoise or penguin: To repeatedly jump out of the water to take a breath and dive back in a continuous motion.
▸ verb: (intransitive) Said of an aircraft: to make a series of plunges when taking off or landing; or of a watercraft: to successively plunge up and down in the water.
Similar:
phocoenid,
whale,
pontoporiid,
cetacean,
proporid,
delphinid,
mereswine,
caproid,
dolphin,
pontoporid,
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