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grampus

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gram·pus  (grmps)
n.
1. A cetacean (Grampus griseus) related to and resembling the dolphins but lacking a beaklike snout.
2. Any of various similar cetaceans, such as the killer whale.
[Alteration (perhaps influenced by grand) of Middle English graspeis, from Old French craspois, graspeis, from Medieval Latin crassus piscis, craspiscis : Latin crassus, fat + Latin piscis, fish.]
grampus
Noun
pl -puses a dolphin-like mammal with a blunt snout [Old French gras fat + pois fish]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.grampusgrampus - predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
killer whale, orca, Orcinus orca, sea wolf, killer
dolphin - any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises
genus Orcinus, Orcinus - killer whales
2.grampusgrampus - slaty-grey blunt-nosed dolphin common in northern seas
Grampus griseus
dolphin - any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises
genus Grampus - grampus


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Grampus might take him-- and I could write to Fulke about it.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
Scarcely a sound could be heard but the occasional breathing of the grampus, and the rippling at the cut-water.
Typee by Melville, Herman View in context
As to Paul’s, thof I’ve never seen it, being that it’s a long way up town from Radcliffe Highway and the docks, yet everybody knows that it’s the grandest place in the world Now, I’ve no opinion but this here church over there is as like one end of it as a grampus is to a whale; and that’s only a small difference in bulk.
The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
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