Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Phocacean; phocine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Pertaining to seals.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Pertaining to
seals ;phocine .
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Examples
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These, however, are not of much interest or variety, the leading ideas in them being these: That the great seal is a human soul, or a fallen angel in metempsychosis, and that to him who is remarkable for hostility to the phocal race some fatal retribution will ensue.
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