HARBOR PORPOISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does harbor porpoise mean? 

• HARBOR PORPOISE (noun)
  The noun HARBOR PORPOISE has 1 sense:

1. the common porpoise of the northern Atlantic and Pacific

  Familiarity information: HARBOR PORPOISE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HARBOR PORPOISE (noun)

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Meaning:

The common porpoise of the northern Atlantic and Pacific

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

harbor porpoise; herring hog; Phocoena phocoena

Hypernyms ("harbor porpoise" is a kind of...):

porpoise (any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth)