Complete Definition of "phocine"

English
Etymology
From Latin phoca �seal�, from Greek ��κη.

Pronunciation
IPA: /'f��s�ɪn/

Adjective
phocine

  1. pertaining to a seal; seallike

#:*1955: she had already yanked out of me the coveted section and retreated to her mat near her phocine mamma. � Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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