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PINNIPED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pinniped mean?
• PINNIPED (noun)
The noun PINNIPED has 1 sense:
1. aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers
Familiarity information: PINNIPED used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
pinnatiped; pinniped; pinniped mammal
Hypernyms ("pinniped" is a kind of...):
aquatic mammal (whales and dolphins; manatees and dugongs; walruses; seals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pinniped"):
seal (any of numerous marine mammals that come on shore to breed; chiefly of cold regions)
sea horse; seahorse; walrus (either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber)
Holonyms ("pinniped" is a member of...):
Pinnipedia; suborder Pinnipedia (seals; sea lions; walruses)
pod (a group of aquatic mammals)
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