Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or resembling seals.
- adjective Of, relating to, or belonging to the subfamily Phocinae, which includes the harbor seal and harp seal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Seal-like; of or pertaining to the Phocidæ at large.
- Belonging to the restricted subfamily Phocinæ: distinguished from
otarine . - noun Any member of the Phocinæ; a phocacean.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the seal tribe; phocal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology A member of the subfamily Phocinae, comprising the "true" or
"earless" seals .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to seals
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The enigma of the landlocked Baikal and Caspian seals addressed through phylogeny of phocine mitochondrial sequences.
The most inconvenient seal Darren Naish 2006
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Diverse phocine seals – some apparently resembling the extant Pusa** seals – are known to have inhabited Paratethys during the Miocene (Paratethys was a brackish inland sea that covered much of south-east Europe and south-west Asia during the Miocene) and, according to the Paratethyan hypothesis, it is phocines from this region that managed to invade the Caspian Sea, later getting as far east as Lake Baikal.
The most inconvenient seal Darren Naish 2006
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Diverse phocine seals – some apparently resembling the extant Pusa** seals – are known to have inhabited Paratethys during the Miocene (Paratethys was a brackish inland sea that covered much of south-east Europe and south-west Asia during the Miocene) and, according to the Paratethyan hypothesis, it is phocines from this region that managed to invade the Caspian Sea, later getting as far east as Lake Baikal.
Archive 2006-12-01 Darren Naish 2006
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The enigma of the landlocked Baikal and Caspian seals addressed through phylogeny of phocine mitochondrial sequences.
Archive 2006-12-01 Darren Naish 2006
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During the Pliocene, Paratethys was linked to the Arctic Ocean via a seaway just west of the Urals, apparently, and accordingly it has been proposed that the Ringed seal of the Arctic Ocean descends from a phocine that migrated north from the Paratethys (Ray 1976, Grigorescu 1977) [adjacent image shows a Ringed seal].
The most inconvenient seal Darren Naish 2006
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During the Pliocene, Paratethys was linked to the Arctic Ocean via a seaway just west of the Urals, apparently, and accordingly it has been proposed that the Ringed seal of the Arctic Ocean descends from a phocine that migrated north from the Paratethys (Ray 1976, Grigorescu 1977) [adjacent image shows a Ringed seal].
Archive 2006-12-01 Darren Naish 2006
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When the mutual inspection, friendly glances, and exchange of civilities between the phocine and human tribes began to pall I told Nuredien to go full speed ahead to our usual spot.
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"There's phocine distemper that in Europe has wiped out a huge number of harbour seals," he said.
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"There's phocine distemper that in Europe has wiped out a huge number of harbour seals," he said.
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"There's phocine distemper that in Europe has wiped out a huge number of harbour seals," he said.
EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (Winnipeg Free Press: 2010
emily_morine commented on the word phocine
Seal-like.
December 8, 2006